As soon as Brenda Adler pushed open the bedroom door, Claire North couldn’t help but rush over and tightly embrace her, "Mom, you’re finally here."
Just as she started to speak, tears began to fall. Fresh chapters posted on novel✦fire.net
"What’s wrong, my darling daughter?" Brenda urgently questioned, "Who bullied you? Tell me quickly!"
"Who else but Raina!" Claire gritted her teeth, her delicately made-up face twisting in anger, "You don’t know, Beau Shelby just came to me, saying that Raina agreed to give me Northwind’s shares so I could marry gloriously! Mom, Raina is doing this on purpose to ruin my future with Elias! She’s so malicious, you have to help me!"
"Don’t worry, let me think."
"Mom, we can’t wait any longer, I can’t hold it in anymore. You don’t know how many people want to know Raina through me. I stand right in front of them, yet none of them see me! I’ve had enough, I’ve truly had enough!"
Brenda’s face also darkened, she encountered similar situations, and she had enough of it too!
"Mom, I have an idea." Claire clenched her fists tightly, speaking through gritted teeth, "Doesn’t Raina love Beau Shelby so much that she’s willing to have his baby even if he becomes a vegetable? Then I’ll grant her wish. If today, in front of all the guests, they get together, Elias will definitely not want this wife who’s lost all face, and Beau will have to marry Raina! Then I’ll have my chance."
A pair of people wounded by the same heartache, isn’t it only natural they’d end up together?
Brenda nodded approvingly, "That’s a good plan. But it’s too easy on Raina."
Before, Beau Shelby was the husband Brenda painstakingly chosen for her daughter. Whether it was family, character, or looks, Beau was top-notch. Now letting Raina end up with such a good match naturally made Brenda uncomfortable.
"I know. But it’s the best way."
Who in this circle doesn’t know about Raina’s mad love for Beau Shelby? And only if it’s Beau could Raina’s betrayal of Elias make sense.
More importantly, a girl whose fiancé was snatched by her sister is pitied enough to arouse sympathy.
Claire’s expression was dark and her smile was filled with malice, "What’s more, even if she sleeps with Beau, it doesn’t mean she can marry into the Shelby Family. Beau is proud and has always hated being manipulated, especially by Raina."
Brenda was quite surprised; she hadn’t expected her daughter’s plan to be so thorough.
"Mom." Claire leaned on Brenda’s shoulder, holding her arm, "You have to help me, please, you must help me."
"Silly child." Brenda’s gaze was gentle, raising her hand to tidy Claire’s stray hairs by her ear, "You’re my only daughter, who else would I help but you?"
Besides, having that woman’s daughter overshadow her was worse than death for Brenda!
At this moment, the bedroom door was knocked, and the polite voice of a servant came from outside, "Madam, President Hawthorne and Mrs. Hawthorne have arrived. Sir requests that you and Miss join them to entertain."
"Okay, tell Sir I’ll be right there."
Turning to her daughter, Brenda said, "Soon you’ll accompany Mrs. Hawthorne. Although she’s a second wife, she’s deeply adored by her husband. If you win her favor, marrying into the Hawthorne Family in the future will be much easier."
Claire nodded, obediently saying, "Mom, don’t worry, I know what to do."
In the courtyard, on the open-air lawn.
Brenda and Claire walked on either side, holding Gideon North’s arm, cheerfully came forward to exchange pleasantries with Mrs. Hawthorne.