A message from his friend popped up: "Yeah, that's her! Isabella, the daughter of the Lancasters, the wealthiest family in Vaelion City. The one who won the international gold medal for piano and a ton of other awards!"
Darius looked embarrassed. "So what if she can play the piano? Isn't she just some girl who grew up in the sticks? Hailey said the woman didn't even finish high school before she got kicked out. A woman like that... she can't hold a candle to Hailey."
"And she thinks she can marry into a prestigious family? Riley probably has no idea where she comes from, does he?"
"Shut up!" Adrian's fingers tightened into a fist, veins bulging on his hand. His gaze turned cold and menacing as he stared at the phone.
His friend's words echoed in his mind-
Riley was interested in her.
He wanted to pursue her, to marry her.
Serena... how dare she!
How could she?
After leaving him, she was acting like a social butterfly, flitting between all those men.
And what's more...
Those men were all people he dreamed of connecting with, people who were completely out of his league.
But now, Serena had effortlessly integrated into their circle, attending events where he couldn't even get past the front door...
She was shining so brightly.
Serena... just how much had she been hiding from him?
First, it was her racing skills and the suspicion that she was Skye.
And now, she had revealed a talent for piano that surpassed even the daughter of Vaelion City's richest family, the Lancasters.
If...
If she had shown these extraordinary abilities sooner...
How could he... how could he possibly have ignored her for four years?
"Hey, hey, Adrian, that's my phone! Mine!" his friend cried out, reaching for the device as Adrian looked ready to crush it.
In the scuffle...
The video's progress bar was accidentally moved.
Adrian's eyes widened in pure shock.
He shoved his friend aside and stared intently at the screen.
There... standing below the stage, dressed in an expensive gown, was a disheveled
and terrified-looking Hailey!
Hailey?!
Serena had managed to get into the Blackwood family's coming-of-age party through Mr. Foster and his elite circle.
But Hailey... how did she end up at the Blackwood party?
His family, the Coles, didn't even have the credentials to get an invitation.
A third-rate family like the Wynns had even less of a chance.
Why was Hailey at the Blackwood princess's coming-of-age party?
And if she could go, why didn't she tell him?
Why...
didn't she invite him to come with her?
An event like that...
If he could just set foot inside...
He could completely erase the losses he suffered from the racing disaster.
The inheritance of the Cole family would be back in his hands!
Why...
Why did Hailey have this opportunity but not even mention a word of it to him?
He clutched the phone, then threw it
forceful
His face grim, he pulled
out his own phone and dialed
Hailey's number. FindNovel.net
That was the nature of a jerk.
Confident and arrogant.
No matter what happened, he would never suspect it was his own fault.
It never even occurred to him that after the facing incident, he had been the one to deliberately distance himself from the Wynn family create a gap with Hailey, to pointedly ignore her calls...
He had wanted to use the opportunity to break off the engagement with the Wynn
family.
But now, seeing that Hailey could get into the Blackwood family's party...
He suddenly felt...
That Hailey had value he could exploit once again.
Meanwhile...
The Wynn family and the two
socialites who had been thrown out by Blackwood security were all
sprawled on the ground in an
ndignified heap. Contenit