Everyone in the private room looked over at the door. For a moment, the room was eerily silent.

Yvette immediately caught sight of Xavier in the middle of the room. His eyes were clear and bright. He was clearly not drunk.

She knew that she had been tricked by Daphne.

When Xavier saw Yvette, his pupils constricted.

Everyone else in the room looked awkward, including Tristan, who had been the most vocal in getting Xavier to accept Daphne's confession earlier.

Yvette shouldn't have gone there.

Daphne was the first to break the silence. "Please don't get the wrong idea, Yvvy. Tristan was joking. Xavier and I are just friends."

Before Yvette could answer, Xavier stood up impatiently. "There's no need to explain it to her."

Then, he stalked over to Yvette. "What are you doing here?"

"I thought you were drunk, so I came to take you home," Yvette answered truthfully.

Xavier scoffed. "You really didn't retain anything I told you, did you?"

Lowering his voice, he said softly so that only she could hear him, "Are you here to remind everyone that I was tricked into marrying you three years ago? Did you think they forgot?" Yvette was stunned.

Xavier gave her a cold look. "Stop seeking attention. You're only making me hate you more."

With that, he turned away, leaving Yvette standing alone.

Yvette stared after his retreating figure, unable to snap out of her shock.

None of the other scions in the room took pity on her when they saw Xavier ignoring her.

Tristan even had no qualms in telling Daphne, who was feigning distress, "You're too kind, Daphne. You didn't need to explain anything.

"If Yvette hadn't scammed Xav, he would've married you in the first place. You wouldn't have needed to suffer abroad as well."

Despite the constant ringing in her ears, Yvette could still hear every word clearly.

She knew better than anyone that even if Xavier hadn't married her, he wouldn't have married Daphne. Daphne was a nobody with no background, after all.

Daphne was well aware of this as well. That was why she had chosen to break up with Xavier and leave the country.

How had everything turned out to be Yvette's fault?

When Yvette left Sternhow Club with her umbrella, she felt as if she had been enveloped by darkness.

lithe figure appeared beside

It was Daphne.

looked smug. "It's a cold night, isn't it? So, how does it feel to get scoffed at by Xavier after you came all the way here at this time to get him?" Yvette didn't answer her,

cook for me himself? When I

he loves you? He used

rambling quietly, her mind going over

so much as stepped into the kitchen during that

had gotten sick,

told her he loved her

night, Yvette couldn't

heart, in the spectacular way that only young people could. At that moment, she realized that it was

a sleepless

Xavier returned home. The glare

family's money, to me, your money-making robot?" he

was stunned. She didn't know what had gotten into him so early

only ever

disdain. "Then, why did your mother come to my office and beg me

Yvette was stunned.

was only then that she realized that he wasn't angry

waste his breath on her. "If you want to continue staying with me and keep your family afloat,

the end, Yvette didn't need to look

cold and distant; she gripped Yvette's hands and said gently, "Yvvy, you should ask Xavier to give you a child. He doesn't have to do it biologically.

Scientific measures.

in shock as the latter continued, "Daphne told me that Xavier hasn't slept with you in the past three

was the last straw for

didn't know why Xavier would tell Daphne about

loved Daphne a

she suddenly felt relieved. "Just let it

paused. She frowned.

want to

Yara slapped her hard

facade was gone in an instant. She jabbed a finger at Yvette and gritted out, "You have no right to ask for a divorce! "Without the Lane family, what do

never liked Yvette, even when

had been a famous dancer. The fact that she had given birth to a daughter with hearing issues

taken care of by a nanny. She had only allowed Yvette to return home when the latter started

Yvette that every mother loved their

had done everything she could to excel at everything in hopes of making

class in dance, music, and art classes. But no

physically, but also in

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