Chapter 17 - It Was All Her

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

In Luna’s memory, Alexander had always been a cold man.

But after staying together with him for a few days, she realized that he wasn’t as scary as others had said.

At least, he was treating her as an exception.

She liked how she was being treated special.

After the meal, Luna went back up after saying good night to Alexander.

Alexander didn’t stick around and let her off after saying good night as well.

Once she was back in her room, Luna restarted her computer.

In a short time, there were thousands of messages on the message board.

She was going to try and see if there was anything new coming in from the tapping device. But before she could do that, her phone’s messenger began to light up.

“Luna, something happened to the Oaks this afternoon!”

Luna: What happened?

Melody: Clarence wanted to marry Eve, but his father refused.”

Luna: Eve was the daughter of a mistress and was previously an illegitimate daughter. Mr. Oak hated people like that. How could he have agreed to it?

Melody: Looks like Eve is quite sad. After what had happened, who else would marry her other than Clarence?

Luna: As long as the benefit is huge enough, someone would pick her up eventually.

Melody: This is karma.

Karma? Luna didn’t believe in karma.

It was just a word used by weaklings hoping to use luck to get back at someone!

She still felt that it would be better to get vengeance using her own two hands!

Nighttime.

The Brooke residence.

There were sounds of crying and sobbing from within.

“It’s alright, husband. Stop yelling at Eve. Isn’t it enough that outsiders are yelling at her too?” Flora was holding Eve’s shoulders and there was pity in her eyes. “The Oaks crossed the line today. What did they mean by not letting Eve marry into the Oak family no matter what? We Brookes aren’t much different than the Oaks!”

Julius’ voice was extremely frigid as his expression darkened, “This is the good daughter that you educated? She dares to steal her elder sister’s fiancé behind everyone’s back? Great. Not only is her reputation ruined, but even the entire Brooke family’s reputation is also ruined.”

While he was still angry at Luna leaving, he finally realized what he had done after speaking with Mr. Oak.

If it weren’t because Eve and Clarence committed adultery, nothing like that would have happened.

And Flora had been abusing Luna for so many years. Would a person like that really teach her daughter to be a truly kind woman?

“What’s more important now is to find a way to fix this,” Flora knew that she was at fault as well, and swiftly changed the topic. “We can’t let Eve stay here until she’s old and make others laugh at us, can we?”

“I’ll have an easier time as long as she stays at home and does not cause any trouble outside!” Julius glanced at the mother and daughter and said, “Since the Oaks disagreed, then there’s nothing more to be said! Once your art exhibition is over, you’ll stay at home. You are not allowed to go anywhere and you’re not allowed to contact Clarence anymore!”

Eve sobbed, and cried even louder, “Dad, Clarence lied! He was the one that seduced me! I didn’t know! I didn’t know that it would become like this! I’m no longer in touch with Clarence for a long time, but I didn’t know where my sister got the video!”

That little b*tch Luna! If it weren’t because of her, she would have become the real Mrs. Oak already. She wouldn’t have to suffer today’s humiliation!

Clarence’s father had said there was no place for an illegitimate daughter who seduced his son to become part of his family. How could she be less than Luna? A mentally deranged woman?

She had to marry Clarence and become his wife!

If not, she would be the joke of the century!

“What else do you want? Do you want to go over to him directly?” There was anger in Julius’s eyes. He was also becoming quite unhappy with this daughter of his that seemed to be quite obedient and meek earlier. “Not only is your younger brother useless, but even you are also so shameless!”

Flora’s pitiful expression instantly froze. He wasn’t scolding Eve. He was scolding her as her mother!

For so many years, Julius had always given Luna more than her in terms of money.

She hadn’t said anything, but this was all she got in return?

But this was not the time to start a fight.

She needed Julius to deal with Eve’s marriage and Emmett’s gambling debt.

She suppressed her anger and forced a smile and said, “Don’t get so angry. We’re not out of options yet! I think the Oaks felt that this was too sudden and very damaging to their reputation. All we need to do is to find some way to fix our reputation.”

Julius snorted coldly. “How are we supposed to fix it after something like this?”

Flora became silent as she plotted in her head, and after thinking for a while, she said, “Isn’t Luna together with Alexander White now? It’s impossible for Clarence to marry Luna now even if the Oaks wanted her. However, didn’t Alexander give you 100 million? We can use that money to give the Oak family a hand with that project! Then, even the Oak family would have to reconsider the benefit of this marriage.”

Julius glanced at her and said, “You’re merely basing this on your own calculations. Do you know how much money the Oaks needed for their new project? At least 30 million!”

This woman was so greedy for more.

“Husband, if Eve became Clarence’s wife, all of these blemishes on her reputation could be erased,” Flora held onto Eve’s shoulder with her arm and sat next to Julius. “Plus, the Oaks have more than that!”

He knew how powerful the Oaks were in terms of business. If Eve could marry over, the two families could work even closer in terms of their businesses.

But that was 30 million they were talking about. If the Oaks still refused, he could lose all that money.

When Flora saw that there might be a chance for that to work, she quickly said, “No need to rush. Take your time. But before this, we should have Luna apologize to the Oaks. At the end of the day, if it weren’t for her playing that video during her birthday party, the Oaks wouldn’t have been so angry at Eve! Also, we can have Luna say that she was no longer in contact with Clarence so that the Oaks wouldn’t say that both our daughters were ridiculous and none of them could ever take care of themselves.”

Julius looked at her coldly. “Flora… You are really becoming more and more absurd!”

Luna had already left the Brooke residence and was living together with Alexander White. If they used Luna as a shield again, what would happen to his reputation?

Not to mention that would Alexander White show any mercy to the Brookes?

Flora gulped and said, “I didn’t mean that, but Luna was together with Clarence for so long, who knows if something else might happen in the future? … We have to give an explanation eventually.”

“Have you forgotten? Luna is no longer part of the Brookes!” Julius stood up, turned, and left without saying anything else..