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Hamish immediately perked up. “Alright, you said it. If I end up flipping the whole Shoneport over and my old man starts chasing me down with a cage you better help hold him back.
Ashton agreed without hesitation.
Then the three of them got up and walked out.
Inside Marvin’s office, it was packed with peopl
“Mr. Goodwin, something this serious hened a
be
the school. You owe the students and their parents an explanation, don’t you?”
This came from one of the parent representatives. “We sent our children to Shoneport University, hoping they’d thrive in a safe environment. Now we can’t even guarantee their basic personal safety? How can we trust this school anymore?”
The other parents were outraged as well. “Exactly! Mr. Goodwin, we need a proper explanation. We won’t allow our children to be in the same environment as a murderer!”
“Yeah! Who knows if Briar will kill again?”
After the incident blew up, the parents were emotionally volatile. If not for the school security acting quickly, stopping more parents from barging in, the whole front entrance would’ve been swarmed.
Even so, the commotion was loud enough to attract journalists, now crowding the school gates, demanding an interview with Marvin.
Faced with both parental pressure and waves of public scrutiny, Marvin looked completely overwhelmed, his graying hair practically standing on end.
When Ashton walked into the office with his group, he saw Marvin was pitifully surrounded and harassed by a group of parents.
After Ashton showed up, the previously rowdy room fell into complete silence. Everyone instinctively made way for him. Their aggressive tone from earlier vanished.
Marvin’s eyes lit up when he saw Ashton, as if seeing a savior. “Ashton, you’re just in time…”
Ashton shot a look at Brandon, who immediately understood and rushed forward, cutting through the crowd to help extract the pitiful principal from the encirclement.
“Mr. Goodwin, are you alright?” Hamish rushed to bring Marvin some heart medicine.
Marvin sighed. “I’m fine. You can see it for yourself. These parents are demanding answers…”
Ashton’s presence alone silenced the ringleaders.
When they met his mocking gaze, chills ran down their backs. They didn’t think they were doing anything wrong, yet they still felt inexplicably guilty.
Ashton sat down on the couch, long legs crossed, sweeping his gaze across every face in the room, noting their expressions. He let out a low chuckle. “You want an explanation? For what? The students djed off campus, not on school grounds. Strictly speaking, this has little to do with the university.”
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Among the group of parents, a few genuinely worried about their children. One father stepped forward with some courage. “Mr. Wade, you’re not wrong, but… we heard the suspect is a student here at Shoneport University, someone named Briar Jennings. We’re only acting out of concern for safety.”
yre on we’re r
reacting like this. If there’s a killer roaming campus, that’s terrifying!”
Someone else quickly added, “Exactly, Mr. Wade. That’s the only
“Right! If the school won’t punish the murderer, who’s going to protect our kids? I demand Briar be expelled! Otherwise, I’ll transfer my child out immediately.”
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“Yes! Expel her, or we’ll pull our kids out!”
Everyone was talking at once, and there was no way to shut them up.
Hamish watched the crowd getting riled up again. He could see this was no spontaneous protest. It was well planned, calculated, and targeted at Blac was as if someone had predicted that even Ashton’s presence wouldn’t stop protective parents from panicking.
But Ashton still sat there, calm and composed. “Oh? And who exactly told you that Briar is the killer? Where’s your evidence? The police have found no proof implicating her. And yet, you’ve already convicted an innocent student? Where is your proof? Let me see it.”
His barrage of questions left the room stunned.
Everyone said Briar was the killer. The rumor sounded so real, so everyone just believed it. And she had already been taken away by the police.
Someone, wiping sweat from their brow, said weakly, “Mr. Wade… someone saw it happen…”
“So based on that hearsay, you storm the school demanding answers from Mr. Goodwin?” Ashton’s voice sank even lower. “You all were so easily manipulated by someone’s false claims, and now you’re out here calling an innocent girl a murderer?”
He let out a smile that didn’t reach his eyes, then turned to Hamish and Marvin, both wearing equally grim expressions. “Mr. Goodwin, Hamish. Please record the names of these parents here. For future accountability. And prepare each of them a transfer application form, along with a note on their records. Participation in inciting group unrest.”
Hearing that, everyone was stunned.
That last line landed like a thunderclap. The whole office was instantly silent and pale–faced.
The weight of those words was enough to snuff out everyone’s outrage
in an instant.
“Mr. Wade, we… we were just acting for our children’s safety. You can’t do this…”
Just then, the office door opened. Everyone turned instinctively to look. Frank stood there, grinning. “Everyone’s here, huh?”
Then, before anyone could react, he stepped aside, revealing the person behind him.
The parents had done their homework before coming to the school. When they saw the sweet–looking girl standing at the door, someone gasped. “That’s Briar!”
They thought Briar was already arrested by the police
as the killer!
They watched her casually lean against the doorframe, one leg bent, arms crossed, eyes cold and mocking as she swept her gaze across them. Some of the smarter parents started going pale. They realized they’d been used.
“Briar, what are you doing here?” Ashton stood up and gently pulled the girl, who was practically radiating cold air, to sit down beside him.
Briar replied, “Came to see how satisfying these people go we wrong.”
A smile flickered in Ashton’s cold eyes. “Don’t worry. I won’t let my people be wronged.”
Hamish seized the moment, grinning with barely concealed mischief,
all can see, the so–called murderer is sitting right here, perfectly fine.”
He added, “You don’t want your kids in danger? That’s fair. But we’re not about to let an innocent student be punished either. So please come pick up your transfer applications.”
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