From Ruin She Rose novel Chapter 173

Chapter 173

Steven wore a pained expression, his face practically saying, “No matter how hard you press me, my hands are tied.”

Emily pressed her lips together and fixed her gaze on Steven, as if weighing whether he was telling the truth.

Tina said Quiana had jumped to her death, while Steven claimed she just transferred schools. Emily thought, ‘Were they even talking about the same Quiana?‘

After a long moment, Emily finally spoke up and asked, “Why did Quiana transfer schools?” She kept her real questions to herself.

Since Steven had seen what was in the file but still chose not to tell the truth, there had to be something even more important than the file itself that made him keep his mouth shut.

Steven, thinking Emily believed him, breathed a silent sigh of relief. “If a student wants to transfer, how would I know the reason?

“We have so many students coming and going every year. Even though I’m the principal, I can’t possibly know everything about every single one of them.”

Everything he said sounded perfectly reasonable, and there wasn’t the slightest hint he wa Emily didn’t buy a word of it.

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lying in his expression or tone. But

Quiana wasn’t exactly a rare name, and with all the years Shandell High School had been around, there was no way she was the only student ever named Quiana.

But Steven immediately knew exactly which Quiana she meant, without needing to ask for any more information.

Emily knew there was something fishy going on. Still, no matter what she asked, Steven just kept insisting he didn’t know anything. He even turned the question back on her, asking, “Why are you looking for Quiana?”

Given Emily’s background, she and Quiana never would have crossed paths, and it had been years since any of this happened. Steven thought, ‘So, why is she suddenly bringing it up now?‘

Emily cast her eyes down at Steven, her face giving nothing away. “A friend of mine asked me to pass along a message to her.”

“A friend? And how would your friend even know Quiana?” Steven asked, raising an eyebrow in curiosity.

Emily replied, “My friend is Quiana’s brother.”

Steven’s face changed in a flash, his eyes suddenly wide with panic. It only lasted a moment, but Emily, who had been staring at him the whole time, caught it right away.

‘Could it be that Quiana’s situation is actually connected to Zack?‘ she wondered.

If that was true, then the Quiana Steven mentioned was probably the very person she was searching for.

Emily felt a spark of hope, quietly pressing down the uneasiness that had been lingering in her heart.

Steven might be hiding something, but he said Quiana just transferred, and Zack said the same about his sister. Maybe the Quiana she was looking for really did just transfer schools.

Emily tried to comført herself with that thought. She kept chatting with Steven for a while, deliberately steering the conversation toward Zack.

Chapter 173

Sure enough, every time she mentioned Zack, Steven’s face looked a little off, but he never let anything slip, Emily didn’t let on that she was suspicious, and she acted like she totally bought his story.

But as soon as she left, she had someone dig up the list of every student who’d either committed suicide or transferred out during their senior year at Shandell High School in the past few years.

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