Chapter 152

Mandy’s expression softened a touch upon hearing her daughter’s reply. “Next time, give me at heads up, will you? Otherwise, I’ll start to worry.”

“Sure,” Summer murmured, drifting into the living room and collapsing into the plush embrace of the sofa with a distracted air.

Mandy glanced at Summer, finally registering her daughter’s troubled look, and asked with a frown, “What’s got into you? You look like you’ve lost your spirit.”

Summer hugged a throw pillow to her chest, her legs curled up on the sofa. She didn’t look at her mother as she spoke in a faint voice. “It’s nothing.”

“Is someone at work giving you a hard time?” Mandy probed, her brows knitting tighter.

“No.” Summer shook her head., “Everyone’s been really nice to me.”

Unaccustomed to such a forlorn expression on her daughter’s face, Mandy pressed further, “Then did something happen at school?”

After a pause, as if a particular name came to mind, Mandy’s face darkened instantly. “Is it Mirabella? Has she been bullying you again?”

on the pillow without a word, her whole demeanor

“That brat is nothing but trouble! First, she drove your grandma back to her hometown, and now she’s causing mischief at your school. I really don’t

who had just descended from the second floor, jumped at

a strained smile tugging at her lips. “Mom, don’t be angry.

“You’re just too kind–hearted, letting

daughter won’t be bullied for nothing. I need to

sight, quickly putting down the pillow and snatching the phone before Mandy could dial, “Mom, it’s really

me the phone

the phone out of reach, sat next to her mother, gently patting her back in a

Chapter 152

the

monthly exam

“Your ranking has improved by a few spots since the

her mother had dropped the Idea of calling the Davis family, Summer finally let out a sigh of

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