Side Chick Era... Over

Loving Mom 374

Chapter 374

Several groups before Sharon and Matty had done poorly. Some had forgotten their lines completely and ended up freezing on stage, eventually having to abandon the performance altogether.

But even then, the lowest anyone had ever received was 60 points-a baseline encouragement score.

A zero? That had never happened.

The room instantly erupted. People murmured, heads craned, conversations overlapping.

“What’s going on? Why zero?”

“Did they mess up something serious? Anyone here speak Spanish?”

“That can’t be it. Even if they slipped up, they finished the whole thing. It should be at least an eighty.”

“Honestly, I thought Matty’s group did better than Theo’s.”

“I speak Spanish. There were no mistakes. Not a single one.”

clenched. His nerves frayed, panic creeping in. He

down at him. Her palm gently brushed his

breathing evened

the zero was a man in his

cutting. “Miss McKinzie, I

“Cheating?!”

the crowd like electricity. Even the other judges stared at him, wide-eyed,

against the very idea of teaching children integrity. If the kids grew up learning shortcuts like this… what kind of

her gaze to his nameplate. Gregory

no anger or panic. Her

hadn’t expected her to stay this calm after

into a sneer. “I heard you never even graduated from high school. With that kind of education, you expect us to believe you’re fluent in Spanish? If it’s not cheating,

glanced at him. “Heard? From whom? Gossip?

diploma disqualify someone from learning Spanish? Are you discriminating, Mr. Finch? Should I start listing a few world-renowned figures who had little

Gregory’s face stiffened.

that he’d overplayed his hand. His words had been too

her, not enough to cause a scene like this. But now, with her pushing back instead of bowing