Lucia sobbed, "It is not my fault my farts smell bad. Why does everyone have to gang up on me like this?"
Right at that moment, Leo pushed the office door open and walked in.
The second he crossed the threshold, his brows crinkled tight. Just as quickly, he smoothed his face out like nothing was wrong and turned to look at Lucia with worry etched across his features.
He asked, "Lucia, you left your things here. What is wrong? Did someone bully you?"
Lucia burst into even harder sobs, collapsing against his chest, her voice thin and wobbly from crying as she said, "Honey. Faye and Nina called me all kinds of names. I am just having a late growth spurt, and they called me a seductress."
She continued, "They even said I got plastic surgery. That you only like me for my body. I know you a
