Chapter 2
1 looked up to see a tall figure striding quickly down the corridor.
Tailored suit, sharp eyes it was James.
I thought, regardless of how things developed. I was still his nominal fiancée.
Considering how much this marriage alliance would benefit the Hawke family. I thought James would at least remain civil.
stepped forward, trying to explain: “James, I followed hospital procedure. It was Alice who…”
Before I could finish, Alice pushed me aside and threw herself into James’s arms like a pitiful victim.
James, she bullied me! She said she was going to have me arrested!”
ames immediately shielded her behind him, staring at me intently. “So you’re the Sutton family daughter?”
lis voice was low, filled with suppressed anger.
endured the pain in my wound and stood straight: “Yes, I’m Charlotte, your fiancée.”
Have her apologize to me, and I won’t pursue today’s line-cutting incident.”
Apologize?!” James’s face visibly darkened, his tone very unfriendly. “Alice has been in poor health since childhood and might have a bit of a temper.”
She’s just a little girl. Do you need to be so serious?”
ittle girl?
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looked Alice over she had to be at least twenty years old.
raised my bleeding arm: “She pinched this. Having her apologize isn’t excessive, is it?”
imes didn’t even look at my wound. Instead, he bent down and gently blew on Alice’s hand: “Alice, does your hand hurt?”
couldn’t believe my eyes.
Vere these really siblings?
f Alice was treating me like this before the wedding, I couldn’t imagine what would happen afterward.
didn’t need this kind of marriage arrangement.
ust then, my name was called from the emergency room.
breathed a sigh of relief and lifted my leg to walk toward the emergency room.
But James blocked my path: “You hurt Alice’s hand and you want to leave?”
I’m warning you, even if you marry me, everything in the Hawke family is still Alice’s call!”
“Whether in the Hawke family or in public, you’re not allowed to contradict Alice! Now! Kneel down and apologize to Alice!”
I stared at James in disbelief: “Are you insane?!”
“She cut in line and deliberately dug her nails into my wound!”
“Now you want me to kneel and apologize? Keep dreaming!”
Alice immediately raised her right hand, shaking it pitifully in front of James: “Brother, look, it’s all red! She hit me!”
“James, who knows how she’ll hurt me in the future…”
At this moment, my arm started throbbing again and was even beginning to lose feeling. I hurriedly pushed Alice aside: “I’m warning you if you don’t let me in now and something happens to my arm, even ten Hawke families couldn’t afford the compensation!”
As soon as I finished speaking, the surrounding crowd gasped.
“My God, she’s really bold!”
“Doesn’t she know what status the Hawke family has in New York? She must be crazy!”
“A girl like her, the Hawke family could crush her with a finger.”
Alice snapped back to her senses, pointing at me mockingly: “Please! Don’t act so innocent. You think I don’t know? Your mother, to get you married to James, actually tried to flirt with the Hawke family bodyguards just to see my father!”
Who knows what lies she told him – Father actually agreed to take you in!”
Hmph! You’re just like your mother! One shameless, the other worse.”
My mother?
Ay mind exploded with a thunderous crash.
ty mother came from an old money family whose business was once ranked number one nationally.
lthough she had now given up wealth to focus on scientific research, even now, we still lived very comfortably.
he was completely different from what Alice had just described.
foreover, Alice truly didn’t know…
classified project I’d been working on at the National Research Laboratory had succeeded, and the results were exactly the core technology that Hawke Group esperately needed to acquire.
was precisely because of this that James’s father had come knocking repeatedly, begging my parents to facilitate this marriage alliance.
et Alice now dared to slander my mother.
came to my senses and slowly removed the badge from the back of my jacket.
hen, without hesitation, I slapped Alice hard across the face: “You love your brother so much? Then I’ll satisfy you.”
Marriage? Dream on!”
