Chapter 14

“I remain shocked at your birthday wish, Leo,” Isabella finally spoke, but her tone was without judgment.

She hardly spoke in class or bullied people like Shannon and Beauty did. Her good looks and family fortune kept people at her mercy.

“You have a good heart, Leo,” she continued.

She never seemed as bad as the rest of the class, but he always wondered why she surrounded herself with toxic people. Anyway, it wasn’t as though he could ever be friends with her. He just didn’t enjoy being in her company and couldn’t force himself to do so.

“Then, I guess it’s charity,” Beauty said, chuckling. “I hear you like to give to the poor, and you’ve extended it to your help’s daughter.”

Shannon cackled at Beauty’s statement.

“And yet you’re threatened,” Emma said, surprising Leo. She stood up, facing them squarely.

“Rich girls with an irritating attitude, yet so insecure. I wonder why.”

“So, the thing talks,” Beauty said, gesturing at Isabella a