Don't Mess with the Girl with Candy novel Chapter 239

“Ms. Payne, what are we going to do?” Ghoul, a man nearly forty with elaborate tattoos snaking up his arms, was sobbing, tears and snot streaming down his face. “There’s only half an hour until the race. It’s too late to find a replacement. Even if we could, we’d still lose.”

It was over. They had no viable driver, and no way to contact J. The future of racing in Orient Country was about to be extinguished.

“Ms. Payne…” Ghoul wiped his eyes, his voice choked with despair. “Thank you for all your help training Kurt. I…”

“Who said Orient Country is going to lose?” Juniper’s voice cut through his sobbing, sharp and firm, her grip tightening on the phone. Her words were laced with an explosive power.

“What do you mean, Ms. Payne?” Ghoul asked, confused. They were completely out of options.

“Stay put. I’m on my way,” she said and hung up, quickly stuffing her things into her bag.

“Juniper, where are you going?” Qadir and Queenie asked, watching her with puzzled expressions.

“I have something to do,” she replied, slinging her backpack over her shoulder. She tore a piece of paper from a notebook and scribbled: [Juniper is requesting one day of leave. Approval appreciated.]

Then she took out a test paper covered in correct answers and handed it, along with the note, to Qadir.

“You need the dean’s signature for a leave request…” Qadir stammered, looking down at the hastily written note. Juniper had just taken a leave of absence; asking for another one so soon was unlikely to be approved by the dean. Besides, he didn’t have the guts to take it to him.

“I know,” Juniper said, her gaze fixed on him. “Give the test paper and the note to the physics teacher. Tell him if he gets the leave slip signed, I’ll solve the remaining problems for him when I get back.”

The only person in the entire school who could strong-arm the dean was their notoriously difficult physics teacher, Keith.

With that, Juniper strode out of the classroom.

Qadir clutched the note, wondering if the physics teacher would actually go to the dean for her. It was common knowledge that the two were bitter rivals.

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