Chapter 13

Her steely gaze swept over each member of the family, one by one.

Nathan, Adah, and Vanessa all avoided her eyes, unable to meet her penetrating stare.

Even an annoyed Ethan faltered, wilting under her sharp, knife-like gaze.

"Not talking? Then let me do the talking for you," Claire asserted.

"When Mr. Ethan received the dress, it was perfectly intact. Surveillance footage can prove I never touched the dress on my way here. Yet, when the dress reached Vanessa, it was damaged. It's pretty obvious who ruined it."

"So, you don't dare to check the surveillance footage because once it's seen, you can't just blame me or make me take the fall for someone else, right?"

Taking the fall for someone else.

Those words were like daggers, stabbing into Nathan and Adah's hearts, dredging up memories of that incident five years ago.

like that. Let me explain. You and Vanessa

the Claire from five years ago, desperate for a mother's love, she might have melted at her mother's tearful

after enduring five years of hardship,

whatever you want; it doesn't matter

away from the Linwood family, not wanting to spare them another glance, and

reached the corner, she

there quietly, having clearly witnessed everything that

but she kept walking, pretending not to see him, determined to

her already aching heart. She wanted no connection with him and just longed to

to pass him by, Vincent's familiar yet distant voice gently cut through the air, firm yet soft: "Claire, I know it

comfort her; instead, they filled her with a

coming from

a brief moment,

seem as if she were fleeing, her limping figure a

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