Felicia paled, but she quickly put on a shy expression as she looked at Cayden. "Cayden, I… I really just happened to be passing by. I saw you standing here and came over to say hello."
Cayden's expression remained gentle, and his voice was as warm as ever. "It's fine. You can continue with whatever you were doing."
Her dimmed slightly, but instead of leaving, she turned her gaze toward Sierra inside the piano room. "Sierra is improving. Ms. Anderson really is an amazing teacher."
Hearing her credit all of Sierra's hard work to Jemima, Madison immediately felt annoyed, replying with a sarcastic edge, "No matter how good a teacher is, if the student is useless and only thinks about scheming all day, they still won't learn anything."
Felicia stiffened and cursed Madison in her heart for meddling, but on the surface, she feigned an innocent expression.
"Madison, what do you mean? You've been sarcastic since earlier. If I somehow offended you, I'll apologize right now. I'm sorry, okay?"
Cayden was about to smooth things over when Madison let out a cold laugh. "Don't you know what you have done? You pushed that idiot Janice into using public pressure to force Sierra out of the competition. And after getting exposed, you were disciplined by the school. Did you forget all that?"
He was in shock. He had heard about the incident but hadn't expected it to be true.
"Felicia, why would you do something like that? Do you even realize the consequences? Sierra worked so hard to return to this field, and you were trying to destroy her?"
His questions came one after another, every word filled with anger on Sierra's behalf.
Felicia felt both jealous and guilty. "I wasn't trying to ruin her… I was just unwilling to accept it and wanted to cause her some trouble," she mumbled, her eyes reddening as she tried to sound pitiful.
Madison scoffed, clearly unconvinced. Cayden's expression darkened as his voice turned cold. "No matter what your reasons were, you shouldn't have done it."
Felicia lowered her head with resentment flickering in her eyes as she choked out, "I understand now. I was wrong, Cayden."
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