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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

and fragile, her

away right in the middle of Lucas’s proposal ceremony, he suddenly felt bad

to Natasha, and stood in front of her, shielding her from all those pitying, sympathetic, or gloating

the shoulder and comforted her in a husky voice,

worry.

right

go get

frowned. ‘Of all things, she’s only worried about a bracelet right

“I promise I’ll get it for you after the party’s over. But it’s a

was so subtle, but somehow, Thomas couldn’t help but notice a trace of contempt

the other side of the room, Andrew and

really going on could barely stand to look at

had no idea about the truth, it looked

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blown up into something downright indecent if people added their

always spread like

even the people who used to defend Olivia and Lucas had all

they thought those two looked better together, but Natasha was still Lucas’s

like their ship had finally sailed, but instead of feeling sweet about it, it just left a bad taste in

whole

there was nothing shady going on between them

were jumping around like clowns, and then the

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

people even got all paranoid, wondering if Natasha was holding a grudge and had set them up on purpose just to make

gossip at the scene was running wild, and things were getting more and

they had to step in before things got even

a ton of questions. Andrew thought, ‘Olivia seemed

the two of them end up

video suddenly turn into a

really behind all this? And

no time to think things through now. The only thing that

yet, and Natasha hadn’t gone

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about the two families teaming up, but never actually said who the

just go with the flow and swap the engagement partner to

had seen it all before. With just a few smooth words, they turned what looked like a scandalous affair into nothing more than some playful

for being so wrapped up in their

the bride, everyone was in on the unspoken understanding. Nobody needed

nothing was truly

no one would expose the truth. After all, everyone still had to do

was soon

laughed and joked, as

scene had twisted and turned

be between those two, why

who just couldn’t let a

dress with big, bouncy curls suddenly spoke up. “But, how come I heard that

voice was just loud enough for

but Natasha could clearly see