No one could guess what Chloe wanted to clarify in public.
But Anna had a gut feeling that Chloe was going to drag her down to clean up her own image.
Sure enough.
Anna smiled helplessly and innocently at the guests seated beneath the stage, the flashing light bulbs of the journalists.
"To be honest, Bryan and I never betrayed Anna. Anna was only engaged to Bryan because to strengthen the bond between our families, they didn't love each other.”
Bryan whispered under his breath, trying to stop Chloe, "Don’t talk nonsense at a time like this, shut up and get off the stage with me.”
Of course, Chloe ignored his attempts.
In front of the crowd, Bryan didn’t dare to act out or argue with her.
Chloe continued saying into the microphone, "I am the one Bryan really loves, we have been dating secretly for a long time, we just kept it a secret from our families!
Anna knows about us, and she often created opportunities for us to meet each other.
Our relationship was exposed when journalists photographed us together in the bathroom, it was all a trap.
Bryan and I never betrayed my sister, and in turn, my sister has always been in love with another man."
The crowd dissolved into a frenzy.
What was happening?
Anna knew about Bryan and Chloe, and even helped them sneak around?
So everyone else were idiots and got played by the three of them all along?
Right then, whispers started floating around, that Anna was the cunning, calculating one, pretending to help them arrange a date but instead calling the reporters on them and exposing their relationship, so she could act as the poor, innocent party, winning sympathy from the public.
Seeing everyone reacting agitatedly to her news, Chloe was delighted and continued, "Bryan and my sister broke up under mutual agreement, not at all like the rumors flying around. Bryan and I never went behind Anna's back."
Anna stared at Chloe speaking confidently into the microphone, she wanted to give her a clap for her eloquent speech!
She had underestimated Chloe's ability to rewrite the truth to fit her narrative, turning black and white,
truth into fiction.
The cameras flashed, capturing Chloe and her captivating speech, and then turned to Anna and another round of flashes erupted in the hall.
Grandma Dawson sat beneath the stage, clutching her walking stick in hand, and sighed worriedly.
"Chloe is indeed a master at capturing the right timing. Quick, get someone up there to drag them down, stop humiliating the family name!"
"Does she really take us all for idiots, that she can rewrite the truth with a flick of her wicked tongue?"
Noticing her grandmother’s fury, Amelia laughed lightly.
"Forget it, Grandma, there's no point being angry at someone like her, what can we do now that she's pregnant!”
"Bryan is the one to blame, he can’t even control his woman properly, how can he let her babble on stage like this!"
Grandma Dawson glared at Amelia.
"I know you’ve always looked down on Bryan, but don’t forget you are Miss Dawson, Bryan's elder sister. Don’t let news of your distrust spread to the public. I d o not want the Dawson family to be the source of gossip in this city."
"I know, Grandma! I’m just thinking about the family, it'll be difficult for Chloe to change once she's spoiled b y Bryan and you." "That's enough, once the wedding is over and we're home, I'll teach her a lesson." Grandma Dawson’s expression was ice-cold.
"If she wasn't pregnant with our blood and bones, she would never have the right to enter our doors!”
"Once the child is born, if she still acts so lawlessly, I will kick her back to where she came from."
Amelia's lips curled up into a smile and looked at Chloe who was still standing on stage.
Hah, to think she wanted to secure her position in the Dawson family.
If grandma remained angry at her, it wouldn’t matter even if she was pregnant, her position would never be secure.
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