Ciara was surprised. She didn’t expect that Dean Victor would want to hear things from her own perspective. Normally, when something terrible happened to someone involved with Ciara, they would assume the worst of her and punish her without listening to anything she had to say. Dean Victor and everyone else waited for Ciara to start speaking. Ciara sucked in a deep breath and made a deadpan expression. “I threw a party, and Elena ruined it by showing up and morphing into her disgusting—” “Ciara!” Alex interrupted Ciara’s explanation, annoyed that she dared to act so frivolously at such a time. “What? I was asked to explain things, and that’s what I’m doing,” Ciara said to Alex, rolling her eyes. Dean Victor realized that things were going to go nowhere if Alex and Ciara kept on gunni

