The next afternoon, I went back to work. Leila was waiting for me outside the workshop. She was holding two cups of milkshake and handed one to me. “Drink something sweet. It'll make you feel a little better.”I took a sip. It was strawberry flavoured.“How are your classmates doing?” Leila asked.“They’re okay. Just shaken up. A few of them have minor injuries, but they've been examined at the hospital. It's nothing serious.”“What about Emily?”“She’s in custody.” I paused for a moment. “She collected more than 300,000 dollars in deposits from the class and transferred all of it into her own account. The scam group only got a few tens of thousands. The rest was in her hands.”Leila’s eyes widened. “Is she crazy?”“Maybe she never planned on helping everyone get a job in the first place. Maybe making that money was her only goal.”Leila fell silent for a long time. “What do you think she was thinking? She ruined her entire life over that little bit of money.”I looked down at
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