Chapter 201: Chapter 201: Hello, Boyfriend (1)
Outside the door.
Baby Hawthorne came out of the room, "Is Mommy back? I heard her voice."
Casper North nodded, "She’s back in her room."
Baby Hawthorne saw Casper North busily stuffing things into his backpack and asked curiously, "What are you packing for?"
"To pick someone up."
"Who?"
"A little boss." Seeing Baby Hawthorne looking at him blankly, he patted his shoulder, "Buddy, your good days are over."
Shea is not like him; when it comes to competing for Mommy’s attention, Shea always completely overpowers him.
Just as Baby Hawthorne wanted to ask more, Raina North opened the door and walked out, "Let’s go."
...
In the North Family’s living room.
Just after seeing off Miles Shelby, Claire North couldn’t hold back any longer, "Mommy, Raina did it on purpose! She deliberately invited Mr. Shelby over to discuss the marriage just to ruin my chance to marry Elias! Help me, you have to help me! If I marry Beau Shelby, I’m finished!"
Claire North was both anxious and panicked, almost in tears.
Brenda Adler didn’t look too good either; she had thought of the same thing as Claire North, "Claire, don’t rush, calm down first."
"No, I can’t calm down. I, I want to go to the Shelby Family and annul the engagement!" As she spoke, she abruptly stood up, ready to walk out.
"Stop! You’re not allowed to go!" Brenda grabbed her daughter’s wrist, and meeting Claire’s incredulous gaze, said word by word, "You absolutely cannot annul the engagement right now. At least, you definitely shouldn’t be the one to initiate it."
Claire North shouted, "Mommy, why?"
"Why do you think?" Brenda looked at her daughter, "Given your current tarnished reputation, the Shelby Family is still willing to marry you; you can’t annul the engagement! Not only can you not annul it, but you should also be grateful to them!"
After what happened last night, even if the Shelby Family annulled the engagement on the spot, no one would say a word about it. However, they didn’t, instead they proactively came to discuss the wedding date—anyone would think that the Shelby Family is compassionate and honorable.
In this situation, unless the Shelby Family is unwilling, Claire must marry into the Shelby Family!
"Then what should I do?" Claire North was completely at a loss.
Brenda was silent; she didn’t have a particularly good solution at the moment either.
She had to admit Raina’s move was impressive. This wasn’t a conspiracy but an open and righteous strategy that anyone would commend upon learning.
Claire North felt increasingly heavy-hearted, laughing sorrowfully, "Mommy, are we just going to let it go like this?"
"No, of course not." A flash of malice crossed Brenda’s eyes, "We had already thought of a plan before, didn’t we?"
"You mean..."
Brenda said, "In a person’s life, some things are more important than marriage. Don’t you think?"
...
At six-fifty, the car stopped outside the airport.
After disguising, Raina North squatted at the airport exit with the two little ones, waiting to pick up Shea.
This wait lasted until eight-thirty, yet there was still no sign of Shea.
Raina North gave Shea a call.
"Sorry, the number you dialed is currently switched off..."
Still switched off.
Could there have been a flight delay?
Raina checked the flight and found that it had landed on time, and Shea was not among the passengers.
Raina North suddenly became anxious.
Casper North had already hacked into the airline system by now, "Mommy, Shea bought tickets for two flights, and one landed in Southgate at six o’clock. In other words, we were all tricked by Shea."
"..."
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