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Mariana hid her sharpness and feigned confusion. “What’s going on? Why are all of you here?”
“I’m here to wake you up! It’s your engagement day with Mr. McKinney today. You should get up early and get dressed,” Hailee said.
Hailee pushed past her and was the first to rush into the room. She glanced around and finally fixed her eyes on the big bed in the inner bedroom.
The clothes there were messy, and the quilt was bunched up.
“Look at you. Hurry up and tidy up. The stylist will be here soon,” Hailee said, striding toward the bedroom.
Mariana followed closely. “I can tidy up myself!”
“Let me help you!” Hailee would never miss this chance to expose Mariana. She almost rushed to the bedside and lifted the quilt off the bed without hesitation.
The quilt was thrown on the floor. When Hailee saw the bed, she was stunned.
The bed was spotless.
There was no man.
Hailee looked suspiciously at Waylon, who also looked confused. She thought, “Didn’t Sandra say she sent a man to Mariana’s room? Where is the man?”
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“I can clean up myself. Aunt Hailee, you should save your energy and go tidy up Sandra’s room,” Mariana said sarcastically as she picked up the quilt from the floor.
Hailee didn’t catch the hidden meaning in her words. She just turned around and shouted at Waylon, “Why hasn’t Sandra gotten up yet? Something is off. Let’s go check.”
Waylon took Hailee to the room next door where Sandra was staying. Mariana followed and deliberately invited the group of people behind her, “Why don’t we all go take a look?”
The people behind were confused.
It was Ralph and Mariana’s engagement day today. Early in the morning, Waylon and Hailee had called them all there, saying there was something going on upstairs and asking them to be witnesses.
They didn’t know what they were supposed to witness, so they just
followed Mariana.
Hailee took out another room card for Sandra’s room.
She swiped the card and opened the door.
When they saw the scene inside, Waylon and Hailee were stunned.
Emmitt, Lillian, and the senior directors behind them were even more
shocked.
“Ralph, why are you in Sandra’s room?” Mariana was the first to break the stunned silence.
“D–don’t misunderstand. I–I just came up,” Ralph stammered.
Ralph’s hair was messy. He just put on his pants, and his shirt was still untucked. His hands were fumbling with the buttons, but he just couldn’t fasten them.
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Sandra didn’t even have time to get dressed. She was hiding under the quilt, too embarrassed to face them. Last night, they were supposed to split up after their tryst, but how did they end up sleeping till dawn?
Mariana didn’t give them a chance to react or defend themselves. She immediately pointed out the flaw in Ralph’s words. “You just came up, yet you’re already disheveled?”
“I–I…” Ralph was even more flustered, stuttering, and unable to get the words out.
“Ralph, if you don’t want to get engaged to me, just tell me clearly. Did you deliberately sleep with Sandra on the day of our engagement party to embarrass me and humiliate me on purpose?” questioned Mariana.
“I didn’t deliberately choose today…” Ralph stammered.
Mariana pressed on. “So you’re saying that you two have been together behind my back for a long time?”
As she spoke, she feigned emotion and let the tears pour down.
“Why are you doing this to me? For the past two years, I’ve worked my hardest for your career, and this is how you repay me with betrayal?”
It wasn’t so hard to act pitiful. Mariana controlled her emotions and continued to complain, “I knew you were close, but I thought you two were just my fiance and my cousin. I never thought… you would actually…”
The senior directors standing behind Mariana couldn’t take it and shook their heads repeatedly.
“This is simply disgraceful!”
anymore
“Mr. Mueller, is this the big star and good daughter you raised?”
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“Mr. McKinney, you’re going too far! You’d better give Ms. Mueller an explanation!“.
Waylon had always wanted to be the chairman of the Mueller Group. Hearing their comments, he quickly tried to calm everyone down. “Let’s not jump to conclusions. This is probably just a misunderstanding. We don’t have the full story yet…”
“Yeah, this can’t be true. Let’s calm down first and hear their
explanations.” Emmitt also had his eyes on Mueller Pharmaceuticals. He quickly echoed Waylon, trying to appease the senior directors.
But before they could finish, Mariana’s pitiful sobs cut through the feeble excuses. “Ralph, maybe you didn’t want to marry me long ago, but what about the reputation of the Mueller and McKinney families?”
The room was deathly quiet. Only Mariana’s sobs were magnified, crystal clear.
She deliberately brought up the reputations of the Mueller and McKinney families. The senior directors frowned at her words.
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