Messing With Her? Are You Crazy! novel Chapter 980

The first light of dawn broke over the horizon.

A sleek luxury car sat idling outside the Marington College dormitories.

It was the private transport Serena had arranged for the team.

Caleb, Vanessa, and Jasper stood by the car, dressed in the sharp, custom-designed team uniforms.

They looked formidable.

But beneath the surface, the nervous tension was palpable.

This was the Marington Elite Scholarship Gauntlet.

It was the highest stage they had ever dreamed of reaching.

And it was their only chance...

To expose the Doyle family's atrocities and save the rest of the sponsored students.

They swallowed hard, trying to keep their adrenaline in check.

Ten minutes passed.

Lydia still hadn't come downstairs.

"This is strange..."

Caleb checked his watch, frowning deeply. "Lydia is obsessive about being punctual. We agreed to meet at six, and it's almost quarter past. Where is she?"

Being late wasn't in Lydia's DNA.

She was the type to show up thirty minutes early to everything.

Her absence was highly alarming.

Jasper paced nervously around the car. "We have to be at the stadium by eight, and the first round starts at nine... Lydia knows the schedule better than any of us. Why isn't she here?"

Caleb pulled out his phone and dialed her number.

It went straight to voicemail.

His heart skipped a beat, and he looked at Vanessa. "Try calling her."

Both of them tried repeatedly, their expressions growing more frantic by the second. "Nothing. It's not going through."

Vanessa's hands began to tremble. "This isn't right. Lydia would never drop the ball today. She's the kind of person who would crawl to an exam with a high fever. There's no way she's late for this, and she definitely wouldn't turn her phone off!"

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