No longer a pushover (Noelle and Cedric) novel Chapter 714

Noelle vowed to destroy everything Xenia ever dreamed of and make sure the latter lived a life of poverty and misery. She returned to her dorm while her mind was still heavy with thoughts. She told Mia everything Cedric had uncovered.

Mia gasped. "Honestly, I suspected it might be a business rivalry, too, but I couldn't investigate it as quickly as Cedric. This sounds highly likely."

The Merlock family had begun celebrating their clean energy project win in advance. They were confident they'd secured the bid. If the Merlock family had been the ones to orchestrate the car accident, everything made sense.

Mia hugged Noelle. "Don't be sad. Finding clues is a good thing. Once we track down Sean, we'll have evidence, and the Merlock family will have to pay the price!"

"That's exactly what I think. My parents didn't die for nothing."

Noelle wiped her tears. "I have two great friends like you two and someone who truly cares about me. I've already been given so much."

She was going to live a life ten times better than her last and make the people who killed her parents pay!

That night, Noelle tossed and turned in bed. She could barely sleep as she mulled over the Merlock family and their link to the accident.

That night, she dreamed about the car accident again. She sat happily in the backseat, holding a toy. Her mother sat in the front, coaxing her and promising to buy her a cake as a treat.

Noelle wanted to tell them to go home, that she didn't want a cake anymore. She didn't want them to die.

But the crash still happened. Her head split with pain, and everything in front of her went blurry. Then, she heard her mother's frantic scream. "Save her! Save the child first!"

She vaguely remembered seeing someone carry her out of the wreck, but those arms were young and clearly not the hands of a middle-aged man.

Noelle opened her eyes and stared at the ceiling in a daze. If the dream was true, the person who saved her wasn't the driver; it had to be someone else.

Could that person have been in the Merlock family car? Perhaps they might have been the ones driving or just the passenger in the back seat, but either way, they were a key witness to the accident. She had to find that person.

"My goal is the national team," he replied.

Noelle thought of her goals. She'd been so caught up in investigating her parents' accident that she hadn't been training much lately.

She looked at Raymond and said, "Once I wrap up everything I'm dealing with, I'll make time to come back and train more."

Raymond hesitated before asking, "Are you free tonight? There are some tactics I want to go over with you."

He hadn't had the chance to see her for a while now and couldn't find excuses to meet up. Now that Noelle was growing to be increasingly outstanding, he realized he had to make a move, or he'd never stand a chance to win her over.

Just as Noelle was about to agree, her phone buzzed. A notification popped up from the Liddell family group chat.

It was a wedding invitation for Xenia and Wyatt! That was fast! From what she heard, Donovan had transferred the first sum of money, but Xenia had yet to make her move.