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Chapter 239
For that moment, Raymond stood there looking at both of them, at Madam Veronica with her blazing eyes and her absolute refusal to be moved, and at Megan with that quiet and unshakeable certainty on her face, and he understood that this particular battle was already over before he had properly begun fighting it.He let out a slow breath.“Why are you both so adamant about this?” he said, and the frustration in his voice was genuine but soft, the frustration of a person who wanted something specific and is being pulled away from it by people he cannot argue with. “Why does everything have to be so difficult when I am literally trying to do the right thing here?”He looked between them, and when he spoke again his voice carried the weight of someone saying something they genuinely believe.“I wanted to teach them a lesson,” he said. “A real one. The kind that stays. Because that is what people like this need, they need to understand that you cannot walk through this world treating othe
Chapter 238
Raymond looked at her with an expression that was impossible to read, the specific and carefully constructed expression of someone who is holding something back and enjoying the holding of it just slightly more than they should."What if I say no?" he said, and there was something in his voice that was not quite amusement but lived very close to it. "What if I don't comply with what you just said? What then? Are you going to be angry with me?"Megan did not even blink."Not just angry," she said, and the speed with which she responded made it clear that she had not needed to think about it at all. "I will be so disappointed in you. Because you stood right in front of me and told me I had the priority in all of this. You told me I was going to be at the center of every decision made in this room today. You made that promise to me."She held his gaze without moving."So why are you pulling back now?" she said, and her voice carried the sharp and pointed clarity of someone who is not goi
Chapter 237
Megan watched.She stood there and she watched Damian Brooks on the floor, holding his daughter's limp body against his chest, his expensive suit crumpled and forgotten, his voice breaking apart in ways that had nothing calculated or strategic left in them. Just a father. Just a man holding his child and shaking with the specific and helpless terror of someone who would trade everything they owned in that single moment just to make her open her eyes.Something moved in Megan's chest.She did not want it to. She had every reason in the world not to let it. But it moved anyway, the way things move in a person when they are built a certain way and cannot fully shut that part of themselves down no matter how justified the reason might be.She turned and walked toward Raymond quietly.“I think I need to stop this,” she said, keeping her voice low, her eyes still on Anita's motionless form on the floor. “I think I need to let it go before it goes any further than this.”Raymond looked at he
Chapter 236
Hearing what Raymond just said, Megan knew there was no going back, and honestly, she didn't want to. She nodded her head, the look on her face showing that she had completely shut the door on mercy."Like I said before," Megan said, her voice carrying the steady weight of someone who has finished second-guessing themselves. "I don't have any other choice. I don't have any other obligation than to let Anita face her judgment. She bullied people. She caused mischief, she made life miserable for those who couldn't fight back, and I am not going to allow that to go unchecked. She has to face it."At that moment, the finality in Megan's words hit Anita like a physical blow. She was still on her knees on the cold floor, but she slumped even further, the last shred of her pride dissolving into pure panic. "I am sorry!" she cried out, her voice cracking into a loud, desperate sob. "I am very, very sorry! I swear I never knew it was going to affect you this badly. Please, Megan, please don't
Chapter 235
Nobody had an answer.That was the honest truth of what was sitting in that room right now. Nobody could explain it, nobody could trace the thread back to its beginning and point at the exact place where a girl that this school had spent years treating like she did not matter had somehow become the center of a morning that kept rewriting itself every time someone thought they understood where it was going.It was not ordinary.Every person in that hall, whether they were willing to say it out loud or not, knew that much. Things like this did not simply happen. Doors like this did not simply open. And yet here they were, standing inside the evidence of it with no explanation that felt adequate enough to hold the weight of what they were witnessing.The whispers had gone quieter now, not because there was less to say but because silence felt more appropriate for something that nobody had the vocabulary to properly describe.Megan looked down at the file in front of her.She looked at th
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Megan stared at the file.She stared at it the way a person stares at something when their brain has received the information but is refusing, on some fundamental and instinctive level, to process it into something real. Her mouth had parted slightly and her eyes had gone wide and for a moment, just one long and unguarded moment, every wall she had been holding up through the entire length of this morning came down completely and what was left on her face was just pure, unfiltered shock.“I don't believe this,” she said, and her voice came out smaller than she intended, stripped of all the composure she had been carrying since the moment she walked through those doors. “This cannot be real. This is not real.”She looked at the file, then up at the man holding it, then back at the file again, as though one of those things might change if she looked at it long enough.“Are you actually telling me,”she said, and her voice was picking up now, not in anger but in the stunned and breathles
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