Matteo held his cheek, showing no reaction to my slap. He merely continued trying to explain, "I only rent this house out for Tia! I didn't mean to lie…”His spineless attitude disgusted me.I snatched Tia's phone and glanced at the camera, adjusting my hair.Then, I affected the cutesy voice of a VTuber. "Hello, everyone! What am I going to do? Your queen says the house belongs to her, but now that I'm here, she claims she rented it!"It's all she says, she says now… Who will you believe?"The comment section exploded with enthusiasm.[Oh my god, this is my rich, gorgeous mommy! Step on me!][That was a good ass slap, queen! This is some high-quality dramatic twist, I swear!][Mr. Brando is here to be a clown! Woo!]…I snickered and turned to my lawyer. "I'm suing Tia Lydic for illegal squatting."The lawyer nodded, ready to prepare the case.Suddenly, Tia leaped to her feet and snatched the document from my hands. She ripped it to shreds and looked at me smugly.I chuck
I was trying on my bridal dress when the hotel manager called. "Miss McPherson, someone's come to wreck your grand wedding venue," he announced, his voice tinged with a hint of glee. "You should come here to assess the damage."I was stunned. I had spent half a year of my hard-earned savings on this wedding! Who did these culprits think they were?Tomorrow was supposed to be the day I married my fiancé of seven years, Matteo Brando. Why was someone sabotaging our wedding now?Furious, I texted Matteo, grabbed my bag, and headed to the hotel.…As I approached the entrance, I could hear the hotel manager's ingratiating tone. "I didn't know Mrs. Brando could be this beautiful! You are truly a perfect match for Mr. Brando."No wonder she's never seen with the man himself when she's inspecting the preparations. She's not really who she claims to be, is she?"Please give me your number, Mrs. Brando. I would love your support for the hotel's ventures and projects in the future!"My
I laughed scornfully."Oh, are you gonna pay my liquidated damages?" I snapped.Surveying the venue's destruction, I glared at Tia. "Are you going to compensate 700,000 dollars for this?"Tia snickered and suddenly grabbed my hair, pulling me close. "Who said anything about compensation? All of that money was my husband's! And now you want me to pay you? You shameless skank!"She noticed the limited-edition Hermès crocodile bag and shrieked, "I was wondering why my husband didn't buy this for me—so it was you who took what was supposed to be mine!"She tried to snatch it from me. I wanted to hold onto it at first, but really, why would I risk getting hurt over a fight with some idiot?Thus, I let go.Tia lost her balance from the sudden release and fell to the floor.The crowd rushed to help her up and began piling on me."I didn't know this hotel had started accepting lowlifes like you.""Don't worry, Mrs. Brando! We all saw what happened. We know she attacked you!""That's
I bent down to pick up my phone, but that allowed Tia to step on my back."I've just called my husband. He's on his way!" she proclaimed smugly. "Let's see how smug you can look by the time he gets here!"Ignoring the pain, I grabbed her ankle, flipped her away, and sent her crashing to the floor, landing hard on her backside.The manager's face drained of color as he rushed to help her up. "M-Mrs. Brando! Are you alright? Should I call an ambulance?""The ambulance?!" she screeched. "No! I want this woman apprehended right now!"She seethed. "You disgusting succubus! You seduced my husband and assaulted me! You can kiss your reputation goodbye from now on!"The owner, enraged by my actions, pointed a finger at me. "How dare you harm Mrs. Brando! This hotel is equipped with surveillance cameras everywhere. I've already called the police!"The crowd, fueled by a sense of righteousness, began wagging their fingers at me, playing the role of moral authorities.Some of them even be
Matteo saw the crowd around. He noticed the pool of blood oozing from between my legs. He panicked and tried to approach me to help me up. Tia grabbed hold of his arm. "What was happening?! Why were you planning a wedding with her? She seduced you and you got confused, isn't it?"The crowd surrounded him and started piping, "Sir, have you any idea how brazen that homewrecker was to have attacked your wife?!""Exactly! See, we get that boys will be boys. Getting mixed up with the wrong woman is an honest mistake for many men! Please, Mrs. Brando, you should forgive him!"Matteo swung Tia's hand away, but she grabbed him again—even more tightly.Panic caused his face to redden, and he suddenly shouted, "Shut the fuck up, all of you!"The crowd went silent, stunned.He turned to me and blabbered in panic, "G-Gina, h-how are you? Are you okay?"I sneered and slapped his outreached hand away. "Don't even touch me!"Tia was alarmed."You can't possibly have fallen in love with h
The hotel owner shot Tia a scowl of contempt before turning to me with the most buttery smile I had ever seen. "Miss McPherson, surely you understand that we were only operating on false information and deception. It was all a misunderstanding!"Vivian glared at him coldly. "I'm happy to inform you that Mr. McPherson will be pulling out his investment in your hotel. As for everything else—we'll see you in court."The crowd of sycophants saw the police and panicked, quickly switching their allegiance to me."Miss McPherson! I didn't hit you at all, remember? I can be your eyewitness, too! It was Tia who was violent toward you!"I found these people both pathetic and pitiful.Closing my eyes, I whispered, "Tell the police yourself…"…At the hospital, the police announced that the baby had been miscarried.I signed the paperwork, unfazed.I didn't feel too bad. I wasn't going to marry Matteo, and I certainly wasn't happy at the thought of carrying his child to term. To me, this
Tia was alarmed and turned to Matteo helplessly."Honey, help me out here! I don't have that much money!" she cried. "Even if we don't have any certification to prove it, we were still married in a ceremony! You and Gina never even went that far! Why don't you just pick me instead?"Why? Because she couldn't give him what my family and I could.I laughed scornfully. "Thank you for bringing that up. It warms my heart to remember that I'm not married to this asshole."Matteo ignored Tia completely and nervously straightened his shirt. "No, we can't cancel that wedding... I've invited all my family and friends! I will be embarrassed— I mean, the McPherson family will be embarrassed!"Suddenly, a voice roared from the door, "Who the hell cares about you?!"It was my dad, Luth McPherson, one of the board of directors at Loboto Inc. He usually looked severe, but now, he appeared downright stormy.The police had left, feeling their job was done, and the room grew quiet, save for the oc
I recovered soon enough and embraced my new single life. I did whatever I wanted and traveled wherever I pleased, often with Vivian by my side.I had assumed everything was over, but I soon realized I had underestimated Tia's vanity.One day, after we landed, Vivian checked her social media feed and frowned. "Miss McPherson, what lunacy do you think Tia is up to now?"Vivian had been my closest companion lately, helping me immensely with everything."Just call me Gina," I replied casually. "What's she up to?""Premium drama, that's what!" She passed me her phone. "Look at the clown for yourself. I could die from her stupidity."Tia had done her makeup in the typical TikTok girl style. She was crying on camera, recounting my "evil deeds".She claimed she had been in love with Matteo since college, but I had come out of nowhere, gotten in the way, and torn them apart.She even prepared an 80-something-page slide presentation, filled with intimate photos of them, including that ri