The Rejected True Heiress (Liora and Callum) novel Chapter 132

“You ruined my dress,” I hissed.

The guard shrugged. “Principal’s orders.”

I grit my teeth and whirled on my heel, storming away. But I didn’t return to my dorm; rather, I snuck off into a side corridor, then located the door that led backstage. I slipped through and climbed up the ladder to the maintenance gangways.

The ceremony was just beginning, it seemed. I perched between the rafters and watched as the principal found his place beside my father’s dais.

My father looked around, scanning the crowd, then turned to the principal. “There is one person missing tonight.”

Yeah. Me.

The principal nodded. “Indeed, Your Highness. Liora Belrose, the wolfless, was forbidden from attending the ceremony tonight due to her recent conduct,” he replied, causing the crowd to murmur. I caught a glimpse of Callum and Bianca sitting together at one of the frontmost tables.

Bianca looked awfully pleased with herself, but it was Callum who really caught my ire just then.

Of course he would lie to the principal about last night. He was even colder and more selfish than I thought, and that glimpse I’d gotten of his caring side, the side that wanted to be a librarian—it all felt like a farce now.

“Recent conduct?” My father’s brows lifted.

The principal withdrew the vial and handed it to my father. “Miss Belrose was caught taking stimulants in order to pass her classes,” he explained. “This was confiscated from her possession last night.”

My father took the vial and studied it. “That’s impossible.”

“It’s not, Sir.” Jessica, who’d been seated beside Bianca, suddenly stood. I swore I caught a glimpse of Bianca pinching the skin of her back as she shot to her feet, but it was so quick I wasn’t quite sure. “I saw Liora putting the serum in her food. She does it at every meal.”

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