The Billionaire's True Heiress: From Fake Jewel to Real Crown novel Chapter 391

Claire just shrugged.

“People can pick whoever they want,” she said.

Rose's family was always looking for ways to cozy up to the James family, hoping for some kind of benefit. Naturally, that meant they had to suck up to the James family's heiress. Now that everyone knew Cindy was the real daughter, Rose switching sides only made sense.

Sophia scoffed. “Honestly, I’ve never seen anyone change so fast. What a fair-weather friend.” She sounded more upset than Claire felt.

Claire didn’t really care. She had never liked girls like Rose anyway—one way to your face, completely different behind your back. Anytime they hung out, Rose only seemed interested in checking out Claire’s clothes, jewelry, handbags... all in that not-so-subtle way. Even though Claire never gave in to her, being around Rose was just uncomfortable.

“To be honest, having you as my friend is more than enough,” Claire said, smiling as she tried to cheer Sophia up.

Sophia’s frown melted away. “Well, obviously! I’m worth at least two of her.” Sophia flashed her a mock-proud grin. “Who needs Rose?”

“Come on,” Claire said, “let’s go eat.”

Even though the school didn’t punish Cindy, everyone kept shooting her sideways glances. Honestly, Claire didn’t need to do anything—Cindy was already paying the price just being there.

People were talking about Claire too, but she always kept her head up. After a while, everyone came to see she hadn’t really done anything wrong anyway.

Why should she be expected to forgive Molly, after all the things Molly had said? No one had the right to ask that of her.

People had always kept their distance because of Claire’s background, so nothing had really changed.

No one bothered her at school. It didn’t matter if she didn’t get a dorm; she could still go to her apartment right across from campus and catch a nap at lunchtime.

Sophia thought that was a great idea and started hanging out too, claiming a spot beside Claire as her official nap buddy.

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