The Double ( or More ?) Life of The Fake Heiress

Chapter 68

Although Delilah’s heart was racing like a freight train, she managed to keep a poker face. She glanced at her husband beside her, signaling him to step up and say something and fast.

Shawn, unlike his wife, wasn’t one to get lost in a maze of wild thoughts. From the moment his daughter presented them with the transfer notice from Parkside High School, he never suspected anything fishy about how she got it. After all, Parkside High School was a top–live national Institution. They wouldn’t just enroll anyone with dismal grades. Even If there was some string–pulling, the school’s reputation would surely be taken into account.

Shawn’s expression was icy as he addressed the room, “Let me make this crystal clear: we haven’t pulled any strings. and we don’t rub shoulders with your principal. If you want to push my daughter out, you better come up with some hard evidence.”

He cast a protective glance at his daughter, standing silently and obediently, then swept his gaze across Vice Principal Morgan and the others, his demeanor growing even more frosty. “And if you can’t produce any proof,” he warned. “I’ll take this story of Parkside High School bullying students to the press.”

barrage

felt a seed of doubt

sharply. “Shawn, cool your

to make a spectacle if it turned out their daughter had actually pulled strings. It wasn’t her own embarrassment she feared,

messages with the principal during the lull, piped up, eager to smooth things over with a nervous chuckle. “Exactly, Mr. and Mrs. Davis. This is all just one big misunderstanding. My colleague and I must have miscommunicated–led you

his eyes at Anthony, saying nothing, letting the silence

not making that clear from the start, which led to this whole confusion.” Morgan, however, frowned at this. A special recruitment? Was this just another excuse to cover for the principal? Not wanting to take the blame, Morgan cut Anthony off before he could say more. “All right,

academic performance? Haven’t we said time and again that she was admitted with