Chapter 97

Yvonne, fuming at the thought of being the subject of gossip and ridicule among the school's 900 students and staff, threw her pillow in frustration. She imagined Wendy's face on the wool rug and clawed at it with her nails. "She still needs to pass the entrance exam before she can even enroll," Sandra reassured Yvonne while hastily pulling her away from the rug, afraid that she might hurt her hands and jeopardize her ability to play the piano. Sandra said, "I contacted Whitron's Department of Education and had someone dig into Wendy's past. She's a problematic student—she's been caught cheating on exams multiple times, and her scores are always in the single digits." Sandra had feared that Alexandra might use her position as a headteacher to leak the test answers to Wendy in advance, but she didn't want the Horton family to catch on. That was why she asked Adeline to publish Wendy's grades. Besides that, she wanted to prevent Wendy from snatching away the son-in-law she had set