Ready to Rule: The Real Heiress Strikes Back novel Chapter 292

The old professor was all smiles. “Lydia is this year’s top scorer, not just in the city, but for the whole country. She got a perfect score. That’s why we’re all here. We just need to make sure this is where she lives.”

His words picked up speed, worry creeping in. If Lydia didn’t live here, had they been sent on a wild goose chase while the other schools got to her first?

Lucinda felt her mind go blank, like she’d just been struck by lightning.

A perfect score? Lydia? How was that even possible? Lydia was always at the bottom of the class. For three years, she barely scraped by. Everyone at school knew her for causing trouble and getting into fights. Her reputation was a mess. How could someone like her get a perfect score?

“Professor, are you sure you’re not mistaken?” Lucinda asked, her voice shaking. She stared at the professor, desperate for him to say she’d heard wrong.

He noticed how pale she looked. Thinking about her own grades and how confident she’d been earlier, he realized she must have gotten the wrong idea.

“Lucinda, your grades are excellent,” he said, his voice gentle, “but there was only one perfect score in the whole country this year, and that was Lydia.”

Lucinda’s knees went weak and she stumbled back a step.

Cameron and Kylie were stunned into silence.

Wait, what?

Lydia got a perfect score? And it’s the only one in the whole country?

“Oh my god, honey, did you hear that?” Kylie gasped, turning to Cameron. “Did he really say Lydia got a perfect score?”

Yesterday, when Lydia and Lucinda had made that bet, they just thought it was some harmless fun between sisters. No one actually believed Lydia would pull this off.

The professor’s eyes lit up when he heard Lydia’s name. “Mrs. Norwood, does that mean Lydia lives here?”

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