Chapter 436

Brandon's question hit the nail on the head, once again turning all eyes in the audience towards Marian, sparking a fresh wave of hushed whispers.

Marian looked like a deer caught in headlights.

She tried to speak but was at a loss for words, completely blindsided by Brandon's bombshell.

In her panic, Marian couldn't help but shoot a plea for help towards Martin.

Martin gave her a look of disappointment. She had seen Brandon's tough cookie act before, knew he wasn't one to beat around the bush, and yet here she was, still trying to dodge the bullet in such a public setting.

Brandon wasn't about to let her off the hook that easy, "Is Ms. Barlow finding it hard to spill the beans?"

Marian bit her lip, at sixes and sevens, gripping her phone so tightly her knuckles turned white. Her thumb stealthily reopened the hospital's webpage. The panicked look on her face vanished as she glanced at the paternity test results popping up on her screen. She turned to Brandon.

Director Yearwood's work. I just wanted to break it down and

planned to whip up a different design to replace it, but due to a communication snafu with my brother, he ended up submitting Sophia's design for the project. At that point, I was too scared and clueless, chickening out at the crucial moment to

but as the daughter of the Frost family, I couldn't drag our name through the mud in such a situation, so I had to suck it up and go through with the

The pitch was for the Frost family estate, not Sophia's design proposal. We were going to switch it up later; it's just that in the rush out the door, we grabbed the wrong slides, leading to Sophia's design popping up on the big screen, hence

incredulous as he turned to Marian. He couldn't believe she had the gall to flip her story in front of the media and try to

saying a word, but discreetly showed him her phone screen, muted her mic, and whispered, "Martin, back

the phone, his expression

for her story - that they weren't out to steal Sophia's work, but that Martin had simply grabbed the wrong design in the

elders, she hadn't denied it right off the bat, yet she had started on her own design immediately. The whole mess was really due to a lack of

the slides without the estate

speak right away; he just stared

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