Chapter 155
Though his voice wasn’t loud, in that instant, it struck like thunder silencing the previously chantle room in an instant
Aiden Walker’s sudden arrival caught everyone completely off guard. The atmosphere shifted instantly as many people’s empresun more so than Arianna Reed.
Valentina and her mother also froze, s
staring at this unexpected arrival as their hearts began to race wildly.
She thought, ‘Why is Aiden here? This isn’t what we agreed on at all!‘
Aiden walked slowly toward Valerie,
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step deliberate and steady. As he drew closer, no one dared speak.
Valerie’s mind went completely blank. The only thing left in her world was the man walking toward her at that moment, it felt like the rest of the world. had ceased to exist.
“Aiden…” she called his name in a daze.
“Aiden?” Vivian asked in surprise, “Why are you here?”
Aiden glanced at his mother and replied coldly, “I’m here to pick someone up.”
Valerie’s heart pounded relentlessly.
“Someone said they’d rest properly at home,” Aiden said, his eyes fixed directly on Valerie. “And yet, here they are, socializing instead. So, I came to check.”
As he spoke, he glanced at her belly with a half–smile and added, “Seems like you’re doing much better.”
Valerie looked away sheepishly and muttered, “I’ve been fine for a while…”
As she said it, a faint bitterness welled up inside her.
She contemplated, ‘He still cares about me… but how much did he overhear of what they said just now?‘
She wasn’t the only one concerned about that. Arianna stepped forward and said, “Aiden, you heard everything just now, didn’t you?”
Aiden lazily lifted his gaze and asked indifferently, “Heard what?”
Arianna said, “Valerie isn’t the Clark family’s biological daughter at all! She stole Valentina’s Engagement to you, all for money and status. The one who was meant to marry you was Valentina!”
Arianna pointed directly at Valentina and said, “She’s your real fiancée, Aiden! The Valerie you married is just a fake—an impostor! You’ve been played this whole time, don’t you see?”
Valerie’s heartbeat suddenly quickened.
She closed her eyes, trying to calm the rising panic, but it was no use.
In her past life, the exact same scene had played out. Aiden had erupted in fury, dragged her away on the spot… and then came the endless, suffocating hell that followed, day after day, night after night,
Arianna looked at Valerie and shouted, “Someone like her isn’t worthy of you at all!”
Aiden lifted his eyelids slightly. He might’ve been smiling, or maybe not. His icy gaze landed on her as he asked coldly, “Then tell me, who is worthy?”
Arianna suddenly felt a chill run down her spine–so sharp and biting it made her shiver uncontrollably.
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Lucianna stepped forward, seeing things were going south. Plastering on a smile, she said, “Alden, you’re just in time Wit ware
mean, how could someone do something like this steal her benefactor’s daughter’s Engagement, keep everyone in the dark live untang Arlanna only spoke up for your sake–she was defending you!”
Aiden let out a soft, mocking laugh, “is that so?”
He turned his head toward the Clark mother and daughter. His eyes were sharp and frigid as he asked, “Engagement? Impostor??
His words carried the chill of hidden blades.
Alannah considered herself worldly, but she had never encountered a gaze like his.
Her scalp prickled with numbness. Forcing a
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she braced herself and said, “Aiden, what they said is true. Valentina is my biological daughter.
colder. The frost in his stare made everyone shudder. He asked, “What did you just call me?”
Aiden let out a low laugh, but his eyes only
Alannah choked on her words. Her face burned w
humiliation as she stammered, “Mr. Wa… Walker…”
Aiden sat down on the sofa as if no one else existed. His commanding aura was undeniable. Leaning back with his legs crossed, his eyes were full of disdain as he said, “When did I ever say I married her because of an engagement?”
His words sent shockwaves through the crowd, leaving
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stunned.
Valerie snapped her head up, staring at him in disbelief. What… what does that mean?
“What… what does he mean by that?” Valerie thought, her mind reeling.
“The Clark family?” Aiden scoffed lazily from the sofa. “Without her, what is that engagement even worth?”
Vivian was startled and asked, “Aiden, what’s going on? Did you know all this from the start?”
Aiden looked at his mother and said flatly, “Did you really think a piece of paper could dictate my marriage?”
As he spoke, he shot Valentina a deeply mocking glance and spat, “So delusional.”
Valentina’s face flushed and paled all at once–completely humiliated.
Alannah said blankly, “That can’t be. If it wasn’t for the engagement, why would you marry Valerie? She didn’t even know you back then…”
“But I knew her. That’s all that matters,” Aiden said calmly, but with quiet conviction.
Valerie’s heart trembled violently. In that moment, her entire understanding of everything shattered.
Her heart raced out of control as she thought, ‘What does that mean?
‘Aiden knew me… way before I ever knew him?
‘He wanted to marry me even back then?‘
‘And I had no idea!‘
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Aiden didn’t care about her shock. Instead, he looked coldly at Alannah’s face, his icy gaze sweeping over her as he mocked, “When you saw those betrothal gifts, you couldn’t take your eyes off them. You rushed to bring her out–now you want to say it was a mistake?”
Alannah’s face burned with shame. She stammered, “I…”
Aiden spat, “Some people heard a few nasty rumors, decided I was some kind of savage, and thought they could just send a stand–in to marry me.”
As the words fell, Vivian’s face darkened instantly.
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Aiden’s childhood had been a nightmare for the whole family.
Twisted by others‘ agendas, those experiences were turned into proof of his supposed madness, parapola, and illness.
After his accident, the rumors grew more outrageous and more terrifying. If the Clark family’s daughter truly refused to marry him based on thous Gas, then that was both disgusting and horrifying.
Valentina’s face turned ghostly pale, and she took a step back.
Staring into Aiden’s knowing gaze, Valentina could no longer bear it. Shame overwhelmed her–this was the height of humiliation.
Aiden said flatly, “You know the truth better than anyone, Mother–in–law.”
Hearing those words–mother–in–law–made Alannah’s face flush a deep red.
In her mind, she cried out, ‘So he… he knew everything all along?‘
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