Chapter 165

The room was abuzz with chatter, each remark sharp enough to skewer Brielle where she stood.

Meanwhile, Lillian, having delivered her barb, didn’t miss a beat to gauge Max’s reaction. Even if Max valued Brielle’s skills, would he continue to favor her knowing this side of her? A smirk curled on Lillian’s lips, her heart brimming with smug satisfaction.

“Bri, come up here, will you?”

Everyone expected Brielle to remain reticent, but she slowly set down her glass and made her way to the stage.

Even Lillian was taken aback, puzzled by what Brielle might be plotting, but in a heartbeat, her excitement surged. It was all the better for Brielle to show her face; it would be a spectacle for the entire Beaconsfield social elite to witness Brielle’s true, ugly colors.

Miranda, standing nearby, was stunned too, but as she watched Brielle approach, her eyes. reddened with the prospect of a sentimental mother–daughter scene.

Brielle, however, simply took the microphone from Miranda’s hand and turned to face the crowd.

family has shown me is something I will never forget,” she

Miranda and Lillian. Was this surrender?

a sense of triumph. She patted Brielle on the shoulder, adopting the

again.”

inner scoff was masked by a feigned reluctance. “No need to apologize, Bri hasn’t done anything wrong. Like she said, she was only ten at the time.”

to Brielle’s earlier defensiveness. This only reinforced to the onlookers the importance of

tone nonchalant, “I indeed haven’t done anything wrong,

in a collective gasp. No one expected

Miranda, didn’t you accept the ten million I wired just

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