Blind Date Turned Proposal (Josie and Dexter)

As Claudia spoke, she walked over to Josie. Her voice then became notably gentler.

"Are you okay?"

Mixed emotions brewed within Josie. "I didn't do, so I'm fine."

Claudia turned around to face Ava directly. Her first words were, "Young lady, I've met you before."

"Mrs. Olsen..." Ava's heart sank to rock bottom.

"Two years ago, I gave you a large sum of money in my son's condominium and asked you to leave him. You accepted the money and agreed to my terms. Yet, you stayed by his side and demanded more money by using pregnancy as an excuse."

With every word from Claudia, the color drained from Ava's face. In the face of such immense pressure, she couldn't utter a word of denial.

"If it weren't for me insisting that you get an amniocentesis, we would never have known that the child you carried wasn't my son's." Following that single statement, the crowd plunged into an uproar. Whoa! A honey trap!

"What's this? You raked in money hand over fist, yet it was still insufficient? Now, you're even trying your tactics on my daughter."

"daughter" rolled off her tongue with such

in the past, the fact remains that the bangle was found

and motioned at the subordinate she brought

over, she had already learned of the entire situation and purposely brought along

held the bangle. She took a deep breath.

"The color isn't rich enough, and the material is too thin. It couldn't possibly be a family heirloom. It's

lie

at Ava. "You're right, young lady. No matter its worth,

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in!" commanded Claudia in a

furrowed in surprise, for it was the same person who asked her for a photo, and the person escorting him in was none other

akin to seeing Dexter.

was lost.

young boy to

his head. He said through tears, "I'm an extra hired by Ms. Ava. She... She was the one who instructed me to stop Josie under the pretense of taking a

had finished speaking in a stutter,