Chapter 10
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Urban
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CameWords:854Update time:25/05/26 19:57:46
The words fell like a bomb, silencing everyone.
Lucinda glared at me furiously, then quickly switched to a tearful expression. "I didn't! Rosalie, how could you slander me like this?"
Mr. Fairchild chimed in with a forced smile. "Miss Nightingale, you must be mistaken. Lucinda often spoke highly of you and even invited you over to tutor her."
I sneered. "Yes, she did. But only so she could spill water on my clothes, take inappropriate photos of me, and spread them to ruin my reputation."
Hearing this, my father's stern expression turned thunderous with rage.
He pointed to the door and said coldly, "Get out. From now on, no one from the Fairchild family is welcome in my house."
The Nightingale Family was the wealthiest in the city, with businesses spanning every corner of it.
Offending them meant no other company would dare to work with the Fairchilds. It was essentially a death sentence for their business.
Mr. Fairchild, realizing the severity, plastered on a smile and pleaded.
"Mr. Nightingale, let's not escalate things. Kids can be petty, and this is just a small misunderstanding. I'll have Lucinda apologize to Miss Nightingale. Will that suffice?"
"A small misunderstanding?" My dad snorted coldly, "My daughter is the apple of our family's eye. Don't talk to me about how serious this is. Even if someone touches a single hair on my daughter, I'll shave off all of your daughter's hair."
Lucinda still didn't realize how serious the situation was. Hearing her father ask her to apologize to me, someone she had always looked down on, she immediately pouted and said:
"I'm not apologizing! Rosalie was born into a lowly family, what's there to compare with me? If it weren't for her lucky birth..."
Before she could finish, Mr. Fairchild suddenly jumped up and slapped her hard across the face.
The slap was so hard that her face immediately swelled up.
She cried, covering her face. "Dad, how can you hit me?"
Mr. Fairchild cursed harshly, "Apologize to Miss Nightingale!"
Lucinda was still unwilling.
But under the pressure from Mr. Fairchild, she had no choice but to lower her head, gritting her teeth as she said to me:
"Sorry, Rosalie... Miss Nightingale, I shouldn't have teased you."
I looked at her expressionlessly, and upon hearing this, I let out a faint laugh: "Teased? It seems Miss Fairchild still doesn't understand the situation."
As I spoke, my gaze drifted lightly to Mr. Fairchild's hand:
"I think maybe Mr. Fairchild's slap wasn't hard enough."