Chapter 692 - 689: Trouble Flares Up (18)

Chapter 692: Chapter 689: Trouble Flares Up (18)

The speaker was Jean Jarvis. Once she finished, she and Yvette Zimmerman exchanged a look, a flicker of mutual understanding passing between them.

The Grant and Shelby families had never been close, and neither mother knew that their daughters had joined forces to set this trap.

But when it came to taking down Clara Grant, the two women were of one mind.

Theodore Quinn’s gaze shifted to Jean Jarvis, who had just spoken. His brow furrowed even more deeply, but he remained silent.

Chloe Grant hesitated for a moment, then quickly spoke up again. "That’s right. Even though Clara Grant isn’t my dad’s biological daughter, and was only born because her own mother was... assaulted...

But still, she’s lived with our family for over twenty years. She’s my sister, in a way. How could we have the heart to just abandon her?"

’If I’m going to crush her, I might as well be thorough!’

’Her lowly birth, her shameless seduction of two brothers, and those suggestive photos of her with another man and a child... with this three-pronged attack, I refuse to believe I can’t destroy Clara Grant for good!’

As soon as Chloe Grant’s words fell, another uproar erupted. Waves of astonished murmurs rippled through the crowd.

Though she had trailed off, everyone could guess the rest of her sentence. She was implying that Clara Grant was a bastard, conceived when her mother was assaulted!

"Chloe Grant! Shut your mouth!" Seth Quinn’s piercing gaze shot toward Chloe as he roared.

Meanwhile, Cedric Grant’s face was white with rage at Chloe. ’How dare she say that in front of so many wealthy and influential families? What on earth is she trying to do?’

’Do my words mean nothing to her? Is my reputation—the reputation of her own father—so unimportant?’

He spun around and raised his hand to slap Chloe, but before he could lift it, Jean Jarvis caught his arm in a tight grip, her eyes filled with threat.

Ultimately, Cedric Grant could only fling her hand away in frustration and shoot Chloe an infuriated glare.

Skylar Hayes’s legs suddenly gave way, and she stumbled back a couple of steps. Luckily, Clara Grant reacted quickly and caught her.

Marcus Jarvis, who had been standing far in the back of the crowd, had already frowned when he heard Jean Jarvis’s words.

He naturally understood what Jean was up to. ’She’s not trying to defend Clara,’ he thought. ’She just wants everyone to treat her like a joke, right?’

Now, hearing Chloe Grant say such a thing in public, he couldn’t help but take a step forward, but the phone in his pocket suddenly began to vibrate.

He pulled his foot back, took out his phone to check it, and turned away to answer the call. "Hello?"

"President Jarvis, we’ve finally found Adam Warren. We have him now. Should we bring him over to you?"

"No, I’m busy right now. I’ll call you when I need him."

He was about to hang up when a pleading voice suddenly came through the phone. "...Sirs, you were sent by Skylar Hayes, weren’t you? You have to be, right?"

Marcus immediately told his man on the other end not to hang up and kept listening.

"It has to be! No one else has been looking for me recently but her! I know she’s looking for me because of what happened back then, but that whole thing was a misunderstanding! I didn’t assault her, and that daughter of hers isn’t mine!

Everything I’m saying is true! If any of this is a lie, may I die a horrible death! ...Sirs, please let me go. Or, however much she paid you, I’ll double it, how about it? I’m begging you, I’m begging you..."