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Jewell tugged on my hand and whispered,
“Who’s that guy?”
Before I could answer, Melissa cut in with a nasty smirk. “Uncle, you should save your pity. Sure, that bitch got smacked around, but she totally deserved it. I mean, she
slept with some random guy and then had the nerve to crash our wedding! You really shouldn’t have hit your nephew just for her-”
She didn’t even get to finish before Clifton shot her a freezing glare that made her shut up instantly.
Then, without a word, Clifton raised his hand and slapped her across the face.
That made the entire room go dead silent.
Clifton leaned down, helped me up, and held my hand tightly. His icy glare swept across the room before landing squarely on Clay.
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“Lorraine is my bride! Do you want to die. Clay?!”
Clay’s face went pale. He stammered, “Your… your bride? That‘ s… that’s impossible! How could you be getting married, and I didn’t even know?”
Clifton s voice was sharp as he yelled,
“And who the hell do you think you are? An illegitimate son like you doesn’t deserve to be invited to my wedding!”
Clay’s face drained of color, his lips trembling.
“Uncle, if you re getting married, you should at least pick someone clean and of value! This woman? She s nowhere near good enough for you! She’s been with other men–more than one!”
Clifton glanced at me briefly, then looked back at him, his expression colder than ever. “I know exactly who you‘ re talking about. And I don‘ t give a damn about that!”
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That made the crowd break into shocked whispers.
But Clay wasn‘ t done. He tried again and again to humiliate me. “Uncle, don‘ t let her fool you! She’s an expert at playing innocent-”
“Playing innocent?” Clifton said, cutting Clay off. “She loved you, selflessly, for eight years! And this is how you talk about her? Where’s your conscience?!”
His words left Clay flustered, but the former still went on to say, “Don” tact like you don’t know! Can you swear that she went to see the research research director for herself? You really don‘ t know who got the experimental drug?”
Clifton’s eyes narrowed, anger practically pouring out of him.
Clay started sweating bullets, and Melissa, desperate to defend him, chimed in.
“I’m the one who got the drug! Lorraine hurt Clifton so deeply, and I was the one
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who comforted him. I’m the reason he chose to marry me!”
Then, she pointed at me and spat, “You better wake up, Uncle. That cheap woman is disgusting–inside and out. Someone like her? She’ll never have a good ending!”
“I am the research institute director!” Clifton revealed word by word. “I’m the only one who could have access to the drug. Funny, I don‘ t remember seeing you.”
With just those sentences, Clifton completely blew apart Melissa‘ s lie.
Her confidence shattered under his piercing gaze. She shivered and
stammered, “You… you‘ re the director? Why… why didn’t I know?”
Clifton sneered. “With my status and position, do you think I need to make something like that up?”
Clay turned to Melissa, his face full of disbelief. “You… you lied to me?”
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This time, Melissa couldn’t pretend
anymore.
“So what if I lied to you?” she cried, tears streaming down her face. “Didn t you tell me you never wanted to be with that bitch anyway? You called her old- fashioned, said she wouldn’t even let you touch her after all these years! And you think I didn’t notice how you ve been flirting with me this whole time?”
“You wanted the best of both fucking worlds! Do you have any idea how humiliating that’s been for me? I stayed with you for three damn years, even when we didn t have a real label or any kind of commitment! If I hadn‘ t tricked you into choosing me, she’d be your bride right now, wouldn’t she? How the hell do you expect me to just accept that?”
“Don’t act like you‘ re some fucking victim! Yeah, I lied, but you believed me because you wanted to! You hated her for not being ‘pure‘ enough and used that
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as your excuse to betray her! That way, you could feel good about ditching her and marrying me!”
Clay’s face entirely turned ghostly pale.
Suddenly, he grabbed Melissa by the neck and growled, “You‘ re lying! Don’t you dare make things up!”
My head was pounding like crazy, completely overwhelmed by the chaos around me.
