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Chapter 71 Dad’s Back

Jean’s eyes swept across the classroom.

Then, she quickly walked to Lacey’s desk.

Finished

Lacey wasn’t an idiot. There was no way she’d leave behind any obvious evidence at her seat-

Still, Jean wanted to see for herself.

Just in case.

She wasn’t about to let a single detail slip by.

Jean opened Lacey’s desk and carefully went through it. It was filled with nothing but books–no strange items at all.

She had no choice but to put everything back in place exactly how it was.

Jean wasn’t satisfied. She circled Lacey’s seat, even checked the trash can nearby.

But still nothing.

Jean pulled out a chair and sat down. She let out a low sigh, eyes unfocused as she stared into

space.

Was there really nothing she could do?

Was she really not going to find any proof that Lacey poisoned her…?

Jean quickly shook her head.

She couldn’t afford to think like that–not yet.

She stood back up.

Jean paced through the classroom’s rows of desks. The whole room was empty, quiet as a tomb.

She walked over to her own seat.

She hadn’t been back since last Friday. No one had touched this desk. Everything looked the same on the surface.

But-

Jean quickly lifted the lid of her desk and looked inside. And just like she thought-

Someone had messed with it.

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If she stayed that long, there was no way she didn’t do something.

to her desk and wiped out anything that could’ve served as

Jean had been drinking from. Like the snacks she’d

poison–laced. They were the most direct

gone. Not

was the one who

been expecting to

enough to leave something that

together and plopped

Thunk.

the sound of

Jean froze.

She immediately looked down.

was something on

the school, the sky was completely

the security office and

her cover story, she even carried out a workbook with her–pretending she’d come all this way just

road,

as she climbed in, her phone

It was Sienna.

picked up the

you still at school? Do you want me to come pick you

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uou hom I’ll

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small

could tell Sienna was hesitating. Like she had something else to

is it. Mom?” she asked,

spoke softly.

Her father?

storm of thoughts flashed

rotten bastard of a

thoughts through the phone, but she could

She’d expected this.

kind of man Matheo really was. Just like

of

Jean didn’t feel angry. What she felt

at

Sienna, or the

real deal.

kept her tone

her mouth again, wanting to say more, but

know that she could hear her thoughts. Or that she already knew all of Matheo’s dirty

The call ended there.

still had the textbook she’d taken from school

the car moved, the lights from the streets cast fleeting shadows across her

mind started to stir with uneasy

12:53 PM

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in the gym,

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