The Rejected True Heiress (Liora and Callum) novel Chapter 211

I looked at Bianca again. Silently willed her to do what was right.

Guilt washed over me when she just continued to stand there, feigning ignorance. I wondered, for a moment, if I should reveal myself now. If I should tell everyone that the feast had been my doing, that it wasn’t Bianca, and that I suspected her of being the one to send freckles on that suicide mission.

But no one would believe me. I would just be pegged as the liar. I would probably be expelled before I had a chance to prove myself to Alder. He already likely wouldn’t have believed me under normal circumstances, but now?

And then I saw it.

It was brief. Subtle. So subtle that anyone who wasn’t staring at Bianca intently like I was would miss it.

She took a step closer to the boy standing next to her. Her other “friend”. I couldn’t recall his name, but I had seen him hanging around her and freckles for weeks now.

And she pinched him in the back. Hard.

He gasped, stumbling forward. Mr. Alder whipped his head toward him. “So it was you, Mr. Lake?” he barked. “Did you send Miss Palmer out on her own, knowing that the roads and forests are currently infested with rogues?”

The boy’s mouth quivered. “No, I didn’t do that! I would never—”

“Take him to my office for questioning. I’ll prepare the expulsion papers.” Mr. Alder snapped his fingers, and two security guards strode into the room. They stepped forward, taking the boy by both arms, and began dragging him out of the room before he could get away.

“Wait!” the boy called out desperately. “Wait, I didn’t do it! I-I didn’t mean to step forward—It was an accident! I don’t know why she would have—BIANCA!”

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