Chapter 486

"No, no, it's not like that! Mr. Ford, please listen to me!" Xena struggled to crawl towards Shane, her voice frantic and desperate. "It wasn't me, it really wasn't me. Mr. Ford, please believe me! I wasn't even at the competition that day!"

Shane sneered, "Do you need me to explain why you weren't at the competition that day?"

He stared at Xena intently, his eyes filled with a cold, sharp glint. His gaze was as if he were looking at a person on death row.

Xena shivered under his icy, piercing eyes, feeling as though she had been plunged into an ice-cold abyss. Her shoulders hunched, and her voice, which had been full of panic and urgency, grew weaker and less confident.

Despite her usual arrogance and willfulness, she knew better than to ignore the gravity of the situation. Shane might have seemed calm on the surface, but his deep eyes held a storm of fury.

This Shane, with his understated but overwhelming presence, scared her to the core. It was an instinctual fear, the kind t