My Coldhearted Ex demands a Remarriage by Eva Blackwood

Chapter 898

Chapter 898:

Carrie had just changed into comfortable clothes and snuggled into bed, reaching for her phone to silence it when Marina’s name lit up the screen. She sighed lightly but answered anyway.

“Carrie, are you okay?” Marina’s anxious voice came through. “I heard you had a conflict with that fake heiress from the Hinks family!”

Carrie blinked, slightly surprised. It was normal for Marina to be informed about most things—the upper-class social circles in Isonridge were small and intertwined. But Alethea was visiting here for the first time, and people in Isonridge had long cut ties with Aliza. How had the news spread so fast?

Carrie wasn’t concerned about Marina knowing. What worried her was the possibility that her family might hear about it.

She shifted slightly, resting her head on her hand. “It’s nothing,” she said, her tone light. “She wanted the gown my aunt ordered for me.”

Marina huffed, indignation clear in her voice. “That woman is so used to flaunting her wealth in Egoshire! And now she’s doing it here, too? Does she really think she’s one of the Hinks family?”

to do with her anyway. Don’t worry too much

the people around her? They turned around and used it to

If the information had spread through Aliza’s circle, it was unlikely that her cousins would hear about it. Men

she warned, “Don’t

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her boundaries. Besides, if the situation escalated, it

Alethea bought your gown—what are you going to wear

“I’ll just

was practically

Marina said, suddenly sounding rushed. “I have to

phone, set it beside her pillow,

drifted off to

into the living room, she froze. There, seated on the sofa alongside the