Love Burned, She Rose Unscathed novel Chapter 757

Edna: "Go ahead, but if I'm gone, don't think you'll be having a picnic either!"

"Fine, I'll do it—"

"Hertha, have you forgotten how you even got into grad school in the first place?"

Hertha stopped in her tracks.

Edna chuckled, "You weren't gonna make it. If I hadn't pulled some strings for you, do you really think you'd be standing here today?"

"Sure, go ahead and report me. I'm not stopping you. If I'm going down, you're coming with me. If I get expelled, you, the fake grad student who bribed their way in, will be right there with me. Sounds fair, doesn't it?"

Hertha was shaking with anger, "You wicked old witch!"

"Wicked?" Edna snorted, "Takes one to know one."

Without those extra credit projects, Hertha's semester grades were a disaster.

She flunked three courses, and her other classes barely hit the C range.

Her grades were laughably bad.

Even Slater, that lapdog, did better than her!

Whenever Beverley asked about her GPA, Hertha hemmed and hawed until she couldn't keep the truth hidden any longer.

Beverley had a way of seeing everything through rose-colored glasses. In her eyes, her daughter was in grad school at Kingswell University, so naturally, she had to be excelling.

But then…

"Are you trying to give me a heart attack?!"

Hertha panicked and made up an excuse, "The finals were just really tough this time! A lot of people didn't do well, not just me."

"What about Roseanne?"

"…"

"Well? Speak up!"

"…All A's."

Beverley: "…"