Chapter 1042: Does it Take So Long to Pick Someone Up?

@ilovebeingskinny was following her, still complaining: "What's the matter, needing to meet someone? Can't you just talk to me directly?"

He prattled on, but his movements were deft as he followed the girl into the first-floor tea restaurant.

*

Inside the tea restaurant.

Stella Iversen had finished a cup of coffee and was now standing up, visibly restless, her arms crossed and her expression steely: "Principal, why hasn't that freshman returned yet?"

She never used Nathalie Quinlan's name, mainly out of disdain to remember it.

Jackson Wafford couldn't be bothered with her hostility and remained fixated on the doorway, his brow slightly furrowed: "Wait a bit longer."

Stella Iversen glanced at her wristwatch, her face growing increasingly displeased: "It's been twenty minutes. She was just supposed to meet someone, not go looking for someone. Does it need to take this long?"

"..." Jackson Wafford didn't respond.