Chapter 20

Serena, her hands trembling, clutched the leaves of the houseplant nearby, her lips pressed tightly together, refusing to speak. What now? Will Mommy come? Will she be mad? I've only been in kindergarten for two days, and I've already caused trouble...

'And I hit Sonny... but I didn't mean to hurt him. He was the one helping that girl pick on me. That's why I scratched him. I don't want him to be my brother anymore. I don't like him anymore.'

The sound of footsteps outside grew louder, and before long, the door to the principal's office creaked open.

Stella was the first to look up, her eyes lighting up with surprise and joy as she saw Dominick. "Dominick," she cried, her voice bubbling with excitement.

She leaped off the couch and dashed toward him, her two pigtails bouncing with every step.

Dominick bent down and scooped her up into his arms. His gaze, however, immediately shifted toward Grayson, scanning him carefully.

he saw that Grayson seemed to be unharmed, the tight frown that had been etched on his face relaxed, his tension

Stella down, turning his attention to Grayson. With a steady, measured gaze, he checked the injury

we had the school doctor treat the wounds." "How can you say it's

a child's nails." Michelle wiped a bead of sweat from her forehead,

His neck is full of nerves, blood vessels, and even the

left Michelle feeling cornered, her mind racing. What had she hoped would be a small incident was now spiraling into something much larger than she'd anticipated. Her

Every teacher in the room was now seething with anger at Serena. Serena could feel the weight of their hostile glares bearing down on her. Her small body flinched, instinctively shrinking back, trying to hide behind the nearest houseplant like it might protect her. Dominick, however, remained unaffected by the tension in the room. With a calmness that contrasted the chaos, he carefully unwound the bandage from Grayson's neck.

and treated. It looked minor. A sigh of

him about Grayson's little fight and injury at school, his expression had been so tense that

worse. But now that he was seeing it firsthand, Dominick realized the injury was far less serious than he'd

so much. If the injury had really been that severe, the school would have sent him to the hospital

hands clutched at his neck, his face scrunched

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