He Finally Noticed Me Right When I Was Leaving novel Chapter 128

Pierce spoke with an icy edge. "I've told you a million times. The situation wasn't like that at all. She had absolutely no inappropriate relationship with her step-father."

"If they didn't have a relationship, why did her mother abandon her only daughter and insist on moving to a completely different city with him? A mother leaving her child behind and not returning for years—is there any other logical explanation?"

Pierce shot a dark glare at Lyra.

She was the source of that rumor.

Back in the UK, Lyra had tried to explain the incident to him.

She claimed she had accidentally seen the step-father hugging Seraphina, and that Seraphina hadn't pushed him away.

At the time, Lyra was infatuated with Pierce and naturally felt a sense of jealous indignation toward Seraphina, which led her to spread the story around campus.

But Pierce knew the actual truth behind what happened. That day was the anniversary of Seraphina's biological father's death, and she had been profoundly depressed.

For a teenage girl, accepting her mother's new partner was a difficult emotional hurdle to overcome.

On one hand, she knew her mother had the right to seek happiness, but on the other hand, the reality was incredibly hard to digest.

She had always been polite but distant toward her step-father.

That day, he had come to the school and had a very earnest conversation with her. He promised that he wasn't there to steal her mother away, that her mother would always love her, and that he would never try to replace her biological father. He told her she could just call him 'uncle' and didn't need to force a familial title.

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