The Billionaire's True Heiress From Fake Jewel to Real Crown novel Chapter 549

Claire understood how Octavia felt, but she just couldn’t bring herself to care. If anyone here was actually innocent, it was Claire. Honestly, Cindy not being good enough wasn’t her fault. Just look at the genes. Claire’s real parents, Agassi and Melissa, were both insanely smart. Meanwhile, Octavia was just… average. And the guy she cheated with, Cindy’s biological dad? Not impressive either. Honestly, Cindy never had a chance. No one could fix that kind of gap at the starting line.

Sure, Claire knew that environment mattered too, and for that, she was willing to repay the James family for everything they'd done raising her. But she wanted to do it on her own terms. Octavia trying to guilt-trip her into it? Absolutely not.

Realizing she couldn't get anything out of Claire, Octavia just gave up, which was fine by Claire because she didn’t have the time or patience for drama. She was swamped. Even though high school finals were finally over, she was already living a straight-line routine—lab to home and back again, every single day.

When Barry heard Claire wanted to go on a trip with her classmates, he was super conflicted. He wanted to shut it down so she’d have more time for lab work, but Claire had made up her mind. He didn’t have the right to stop her. All he could do was try to pack her days with as much work as possible and keep the experiments moving.

Plus, Claire had already promised Lawler she’d meet his father, and that meeting was scheduled. She was busier now than she’d been during her exams.

Jenny wasn’t giving her any peace, either. After finishing the big SUNNY headquarters move, Jenny saw that Claire’s college entrance exams were over and started bugging her every day to get serious about their business plans.

It was too much all at once. If Octavia could just behave and not start any more drama with Cindy, that’d be perfect. Honestly, if those two even thought about stirring things up, Claire was ready to spill all the James family’s dirty laundry for everyone to see. If they were bold enough to do those things in the first place, then they couldn’t be afraid of a little gossip, right?

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