Chapter 268 – Unexpected Model Recruitment
The day passed swiftly, and before long, Thursday came to an end.
Nothing much had happened, if one didn't count the Faye Twins slowly losing their minds, trying — pleading, even — to understand what they'd done.
After their parents' first call, they'd sat frozen in the same spot for a long while, gripped by a shock and fear so total they couldn't move a single muscle.
Without even pausing to ask how they might raise the money, they instead began wondering how their classmates, the Academy, and the world would view them if they were ever expelled.
Would they survive the humiliation?
In that moment, every answer pointed to a resounding no.
They would die of shame — the worst possible way to die — without ever achieving what they'd set out to accomplish, for themselves or for their parents.
For a brief moment, in the depths of her desperation, Aminata felt an unreasonable urge to blame their parents for all of it.
