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?”

sigh. “We don’t have much to do with her anyway. Don’t worry too much about it.” But something nagged at her. She asked casually, “How did you

gossip, trying to make herself seem important. And the people around her? They turned around and used it to curry favor with

spread through Aliza’s circle, it was unlikely that her cousins would hear about it. Men weren’t interested in petty

she warned, “Don’t let my

with .

understood Carrie well enough now to respect her boundaries. Besides, if the situation escalated, it could impact the Morrison family, and she

then, something occurred to her. “Carrie, Alethea bought your gown—what are you

indifferent. “I’ll just

all, her wardrobe was practically a

rushed. “I have to go—talk

had the energy to chat much anyway. She muted her phone, set it beside her pillow, turned the air conditioner

drifted off to

nothing unusual. But stepping into the living room, she froze. There, seated on the sofa alongside