The Second Life of a Discarded Heiress

Chapter 191

A week slipped by in a blur, and the end-of-term results from Havencrest

Preparatory Academy were finally posted.

Citrine logged onto the school's website to check her grades.

Total score: 749. First in her year. First in her class. Just like always—no surprises there.

She guessed the single point she'd lost was probably on her essay.

No sooner had she finished checking her grades than her phone buzzed. It was Travis, calling to invite her out to dinner.

Only when Citrine arrived did she realize it wasn't just the two of them. Amelia, Sylvan, Carney, and Springer were all there too, along with a crowd of students from Havencrest Technical College.

Citrine recognized most of them-they were regulars at the tutoring sessions she'd led for the college students.

Travis caught his sister's bewildered look and finally explained, "Citrine, we planned this dinner to thank you for all the time you spent tutoring us. Everyone's grades improved a ton this semester."

Citrine into

reserved the whole restaurant; aside from Citrine and

idea they'd been planning it since before finals. They'd picked

against Citrine's shoulder. "Citrine, thanks to you, I made it into the top thirty of my year! I honestly never thought I could pull off something like this." She'd locked herself in the bathroom and cried tears of

Travis puffed out his chest, looking for all the world like a puppy waiting

laugh as she

squeezed in front, grinning. "I got a five-twenty. Made the

piped up, "I

added, "I got

in front of Citrine, her expression unusually earnest. "Citrine, I also scored

then, as if summoning her courage, fixed Citrine with a determined look. "There's something I want

curiosity was piqued. She grinned, her eyes narrowing playfully. "What is

serious.

Citrine: "..."

Travis: "..."

trying to process that when Dulcie plowed on. "After this past semester, I