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<b>Ross </b><b>wasn’t </b><b>actually </b>bothered <b>by </b>how Danielle had acted back then. Like she’d said, she only did all that stuff because <b>she </b>liked <b>him</b>. How that she ha like <b>him </b>anymore, she’d cut things offpletely clean. Maybe it was better this way anyway.
<b>Ross </b>stayed away from fomantic rtionships. He knew he wasn’t the right guy for Danielle
When Janice saw Rosse downstairs, she let out a cold snort and ignored himpletely.
<b>“</b>Grandma, you haven’t talked to me all day,” Ross sighed.
“I’ve got nothing to say to you, you little brat,” Janice snorted.
Ross just felt helpless about the whole thing. He cut up some fruit for Janice and patiently
tried to win her over
Shermaine was much more friendly though. “Ross, I brought you a present.”
Ross dropped onto the couch. “Thanks, Sheary.” He obviously didn’t bring <b>up </b>Danielle and changed the subject instead. “I watched the live stream <b><i>of </i></b><b>the </b>tech conference. You were amazing.”
He felt proud to be Shermaine’s brother, and he was grateful <b>that </b>in a crowd of thousands<b>, </b>he’d recognized her as his sister right away.
The tech world in the Republic of Wallington was probably buzzing about Shermaine crushing it <b>at </b>the conference right about now.
Republic of Wallington reporters had actually published stories about it. Social media and all the major forms were talking it up, and even official <b>media </b>outlets came out with praise.
It made it onto the trending topics for a while, but it didn’t rank that high.
Shermaine didn’t ask Joshua to suppress the buzz or anything, but weirdly enough, it just never really took off. She didn’t care either way and didn’t pay
much attention to it.
It didn’t really matter if random people knew about it, but in Republic of Wallington’s tech circles, the news had probably spread like wildfire by now.
The thing was, it never actually blew up because Kylie had quietly killed all the buzz on social media. She didn’t just target Republic of Wallington tforms either. She went after international social media too.]
Kylie couldn’t stand the thought of Shermaine shining at that international tech conference and then getting showered with praise and admiration
afterward.
Meanwhile, she’d be getting roasted by Morantaizens for being so arrogant when she couldn’t even crack the top two spots. Plus, she was losing followers left and right.
Once being a young female tech genius wasn’t special anymore, all those guys who were just there for her looks ditched her in a heartbeat.
Kylie was supposed to head back to Moranta after finishing her mission, but now she had a new n. She wanted to kill Shermaine for screwing everything up for her.
So, Kylie followed Sarah back to Republic of Wallington, but when they got there, Shermaine and Joshua were nowhere to be found. She decided <b>to </b>expand her social circle and stick around longer by applying for a professor position at Basterel University.
As for Sarah, she was still obsessed with saving ck River Company from their financial mess.
Even though it was clearly hopeless and Joshua kept shooting down her proposals every time she brought it up, she just wouldn’t give <b>up</b>. <b>She </b><b>acted </b><b>like </b>if she just kept pushing, somehow things would magically turn around.
Shermaine had been back at Jean residence for a while now, but she noticed Ruth wasn’t around. Her eyes swept the room as she asked, <b>“</b><b>Where </b><b>is </b>Ruth?”
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<b>Janice </b><b>answered </b><b>right </b><b>away</b><b>, </b><b>“</b>she <b>left </b><b>first </b><b>thing </b>this <b>morning </b>and <b>said </b><b>she </b>was <b>going </b>for <b>some </b><b>beauty </b><b>treatments </b>Janicece to <b>been </b><b>doing </b><b>this </b><b>for </b><b>days </b><b>now </b>out early<b>, </b>backte. <b>Pretty </b><b>soon</b>, she’ll <b>be </b><b>just </b>like <b>your </b>dad<b>, </b><b>never </b><bing </b><b>home </b>at all.”
<b>Shermaine </b>looked <b>thoughtful </b>about that. Ross didn’t <b>say </b>anything either. They basically understood each <b>other </b>without <b>having </b><b>to </b><b>spell </b>it out
<b>But </b>Shermaine decided to be extra careful about this.
<b>Last </b>month<b>, </b>Ruth <b>had </b>been ying nice with her<b>, </b>but then she’d started going after Natalie and Jason constantly. She got people to trash <b>talk </b>Natalie online, even had someone throw paint at Natalie’s house, and totally humiliated her at Jason’s graduation party.
There was no way Natalie wouldn’t fight back after all that.
When Janice went to the kitchen to check on her soup, Shermaine turned to Ross. “Hey, I need you to get someone to keep tabs on Ruth. <b>Have </b>them report back to me every day about what she’s up to.”
Ross didn’t ask any questions. He just nodded and said he’d handle it.
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