Claire wanted to applaud Lily Lowell for her confidence.
"You're right, my ex-fiancé broke off our engagement because I'm not a daughter of The James Family."
"But my current fiancé didn't!"
"If you don't believe me, ask Cyrus Franklin."
"He knows my fiancé, yet he still tried to steal me away to help his sister!"
Cyrus stiffened.
He hadn't expected Claire to see through his scheme so quickly.
"I didn't, I genuinely like you." Cyrus felt a bit guilty saying this.
Claire told him to search his conscience. "How about this, Dane and I are getting married anyway. If you still like me after we're married, we can talk then."
What did she mean by 'talk then'?
Cyrus was dumbfounded. If she was already married to Dane, what was there to talk about?
She was clearly just brushing him off!
"I promise, as long as you break your engagement with Dane, I'll marry you." Cyrus tried to persuade Claire to give up Dane through this method.
But he completely failed to realize that this exchange was entirely unequal. "Why should I give up Dane for you? Do you think you're better than him?" Claire asked Cyrus point-blank, a question he simply couldn't answer. "I... I like you, but he might not necessarily like you," Cyrus stammered.
Seeing that Claire didn't seem to believe him, Cyrus hurriedly added, "Dane is clearly the type to prioritize his career."
"He has no interest in women. You'd really be better off with me than with him."
Claire almost died laughing. "Are you interested in women?"
"I thought you were so determined to help your sister that you'd even use marriage as a bargaining chip."
"You considered your sister, but you didn't consider Dane's feelings."
"Does he even like your sister? You're just playing matchmaker blindly."
Cyrus stayed silent.
Dane definitely didn't like his sister, otherwise he wouldn't have kept her waiting for so many years without agreeing.
Instead, he got engaged to Claire.
But his sister had liked Dane for so many years, why couldn't he just let her have what she wanted?
"Dane doesn't like your sister. Even if she likes him for a hundred years, it won't matter."
"Besides, coming after me was your own idea, wasn't it?"
"Your sister is probably a proud person too. Does she need you to use such dirty tricks to steal a man for her?"
Claire appealed to logic and emotion.
Cyrus froze. He really hadn't thought about that.
"Latonia..." Cyrus felt that given his sister's pride, she would indeed likely be angry.
"I'm sorry, I didn't think this through."
"I won't cause you any more trouble."
Cyrus backed down incredibly fast.
So fast that the three girls who had their trays dumped on them were stunned.
Macy Wade's mouth fell open, and Tabitha Prince muttered, "Good grief, so cyrus chasing clai laire really had an ulterior motive? That's way too calculating."
Lily breathed a sigh of relief upon learning that Cyrus didn't actually like Claire.
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Before Lily could finish her sentence, Claire grabbed another leftover food the next table and
tray from the nextent
slammed it over her head.
"Ahhh!" Lily's scream was even more miserable than Macy's.
"Claire, you bit—" She couldn't even finish her curse before Claire started knocking
the tray against her head like a drum.