Their Villain, The Mogul's Beloved

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After that passionate kiss, the projector, which Thomas had sent someone to urgently shut off but failed, suddenly went dark on its own.

The live stream was over.

But everything that was meant to be seen had already been seen.

Andrew was so furious he could cough up blood.

‘This whole engagement party is an absolute joke!‘ he thought.

He didn’t think there was anything real going on between them. After all, they all knew about Olivia’s condition.

It was the Clark family who had forced Lucas to pretend to be Roderick Watson and cooperate with her treatment in the first place.

Andrew thought, ‘Olivia must’ve been having one of her episodes just now. That’s the only reason this whole scene happened.

“The real kicker is, why did it have to happen today of all days? Why did it have to be caught on a live stream for the whole world to see?‘

With everyone watching, there was no way they could talk their way out of it.

Of course, they could just tell the truth about Olivia’s condition.

But the whole reason they’d gone to such lengths to cover it up and even made Natasha suffer for it was to keep her illness from ruining her dance career.

The Clark family wanted to spare Olivia from having to deal with people’s judgment on top of the pain of losing her boyfriend.

The most important thing was, now everyone had seen them kissing and hugging.

Even if they tried to explain it away, it wouldn’t make any sense.

If Natasha ends up marrying Lucas after all this, what would people think of her?‘ Andrew couldn’t help but worry.

Andrew couldn’t help but feel a surge of resentment. Treating her is one thing. Hugging is fine. But was a kiss really necessary?‘ he thought.

He even started to suspect that Lucas was deliberately making a move on Olivia.

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Thomas’s feelings were just as complicated. Watching the fake couple acting all sweet and loving on screen, he couldn’t help but think of Natasha.

They used to say Natasha was just jealous and petty, but he wondered if she had to watch things like this take place over and over again.

Now that everything was exposed in front of everyone, and he could hear people gossiping, he finally realized just how wrong it all was.

Putting himself in her shoes, if he saw his partner being all flirty with another man, he’d

crazy, too.

Even if it was for the sake of treatment, and he understood it logically, he couldn’t bring himself to accept it emotionally.

go

standing quietly in the crowd, looking so small and fragile, her eyes cast down. He felt

their mom had dragged him away right in the

pressed his lips together, walked over to Natasha, and stood in front of

and comforted her in a husky

worry.

make things right for you after what happened

“Then go get Grandma’s bracelet for me right

‘Of all things, she’s only worried about a bracelet right now?‘ he

I’ll get it for you after the party’s over. But it’s a mess out here right now. We need to handle what’s

subtle, but somehow, Thomas

to say something else when, on the other side of the room, Andrew and Emmanuel had already made

those who knew what was really going on could

outsiders who had no idea about the truth, it looked like a

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be blown up into something downright indecent if people

always spread

people who used to defend Olivia

they thought those two looked better together, but Natasha was still Lucas’s girlfriend. They’d been going strong

ship had finally sailed, but instead of feeling sweet about it,

about the whole thing

shady going on between them just got

clowns, and then the actual couple came

kicked themselves for not knowing the real story and started complaining that Lucas was

Natasha was holding a grudge and had set

at the scene was running wild, and things were getting

had to step in before things

‘Olivia seemed perfectly

end up together at the back door of

video suddenly turn into a

all this? And

think things through now. The only thing

yet, and Natasha hadn’t gone up

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talked about the two families teaming up, but never actually

move was to just go with the flow and swap

all before. With just a few smooth words, they turned what looked

their romance that they’d forgotten all about the real business at

it came to swapping out the bride, everyone was in on the

circle, nothing

one would expose the truth. After all, everyone

was soon filled

laughed and joked, as if nothing

twisted and turned so many

even bothered to ask if the engagement was always supposed to be between those

who just couldn’t let a

in a black dress with big, bouncy curls suddenly spoke up. “But, how come I heard that Lucas was dating

just loud enough

could clearly see