The Ex-Wife's Burning Elegance

Chapter 367

Stella knew Marvin would never start a fight for no reason.

Her gaze shifted to Sheldon, who stood quietly in the corner.

"Sheldon," she said gently, "tell everyone what made you two argue."

Sheldon opened his mouth as if to speak, but when his eyes met Marvin's, he lowered his head and fell silent, unable to say a word.

Mrs. Ayers immediately stepped protectively in front of her son.

"Don't you dare try to intimidate my boy!"

Haynes, having picked up on the tension in the room, spoke in a deep, steady voice.

"Maybe we should rewind the security footage a little further."

Stella glanced at the preschool teachers. "That's all the footage we have."

The teachers' faces paled.

They had witnessed how everything had unfolded, but they didn't dare show the

full video. That's why only part of it was handed over.

If Haynes were to discover that his son had been deliberately targeted at preschool-

serious consequences for

fear on the

into

throwing my son under the bus? As educators, as the principal and teachers of this school, is this really the lesson you want to teach-rewarding the powerful,

his tone

this preschool is due

out his phone and dialed a

a copy of a security video-from my son's preschool.

almost as an afterthought, "And while you're at it, make sure the entire staff, including the

principal and teachers, hearing these

as soon as they glanced at Haynes standing nearby, their panic faded and they straightened up, as if emboldened by

narrowed. His

worried at all. Do you

swept

on

later, Neville's phone pinged-the complete, unedited

played it for

crystal clear-even the

Marvin's conversation could

rang out—"No one wants to play with you anymore”—the

understood why Marvin hadn't

been bullied

imagined something so cruel would happen in a place