Chapter 98
Chapter 98
Chapter 98
In a daze, Autumn thought she heard someone arguing.
It sounded like a woman.
Vivian White stood at the lounge door, staring at the tightly closed entrance.
She couldn’t help but ask, “Keith, who is that woman inside? What’s your relationship with her p>
At the last symposium, she had seen with her own eyes Keith carrying a woman out of the venue, and many others had witnessed it too.
To calm things down, she had personally stepped forward to clarify that it was just a friend of Keith’s who had fainted.
But now, Keith had once again carried a woman into the lounge in full view of the public, and that made things extremely awkward for her.
When people asked who the woman was, she explained it was a friend of theirs.
They didn’t say much to her face, but the moment she turned around, they began whispering.
They joked that the prince sure had a lot of “friends,” and treated his female friends really well.
Some even laughed and said they wanted to become Keith’s friend too.
No matter how composed she was, Vivian was still furious, but there was nothing she could do.
After all, gossip wasn’t illegal, and she couldn’t stop people from talking.
Still, she couldn’t help coming over to ask Keith who that woman really was.
Keith lifted his eyelids, his gaze heavy as it landed on Vivian. “What does it have to do with you p>
Vivian’s face turned pale.
The pressure in the air was so strong, it made it hard to breathe.
She bit her lip and forced herself to speak. “Keith, I’m your fiancée. When you do things like this, it puts me in a very awkward position p>
Even if it was a marriage arranged by the elders, everyone in their circle already knew about it.
If Keith kept carrying other women around in public, she’d be laughed at.
Did her dignity not matter at all?
But Keith didn’t hesitate to tear off her mask. “Vivian, don’t think I don’t know what you’re really up to. Stop pretending to be pitiful in front of me.
“Our family never acknowledged that engagement. It was your family who insisted on leaking it to the public.
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“My grandfather’s gone, and now you want to use his name as leverage? You and your family know exactly what you’re trying to get out of this p>
He knew full well that while his grandfather was close with the White family’s patriarch, Gaylord White, he had never once mentioned anything about a marriage agreement.
Not long after his grandfather passed, the White family ran into trouble with a project.
Around that time, rumors began to spread about a marriage agreement between the White and Sinclair families.
It wasn’t hard to guess who was behind it.
The White family wanted to leverage the Sinclair name to weather that crisis.
Since the two families had once been close, the Sinclairs chose not to publicly refute it.
But that didn’t mean the Sinclairs would let the Whites keep taking advantage of them.
Hearing this, Vivian’s face turned even paler.
She leaned weakly against the wall, unable to recover from the shock.
She thought Keith let the engagement rumors spiral because he liked her.
She hadn’t expected it was all in her head.
Keith had never liked her, not once. It had all been one-sided.
But she had liked him since they were kids.
He couldn’t possibly have been unaware of it, yet he had never said anything, nor had he pushed her away.
She thought…
But it had all just been her thinking.
Trying to collect herself, Vivian almost begged, “Keith, since the whole world already knows about it, can you at least consider the history between our families and not make it worse for me?
“I’m begging you, please p>
Even though the White family had orchestrated the entire drama, the Sinclair family’s silence had played a part in making it public knowledge,
She felt that the Sinclairs bore some responsibility too.