Seeing the agreement in the lawyer's hand, Roxanne's expression finally changed.
She never imagined that even though the Evernight family had withdrawn their lawsuit, they would still give this agreement to Aria.
Roxanne's lawyer glanced at her, and seeing her troubled face, he quickly leaned in to ask about the agreement's contents.
After Roxanne explained, his expression grew grim as well.
Their entire strategy had been to insist it was a dowry. Roxanne had never mentioned the existence of this agreement to him.
To try and explain it away now would just make them look foolish.
Roxanne spoke up. "Doesn't this agreement prove that it was a matter of mutual consent between both parties?"
Ms. Ellington was stunned that Roxanne could say something so shameless. She retorted, "This agreement involves my client, who had a right to be informed. The fact that both parties concealed this and reached this agreement in secret makes it inherently invalid!"
Aria almost laughed at Roxanne's audacity.
By that logic, if Aria decided to sell Roxanne to someone and took their money, Roxanne would just have to go along with it once she found out, right?
Wasn't this hundred million dollars essentially the price for selling Aria to the Evernight family?
If it weren't for the Evernight family...
Aria was seriously tempted to sue Roxanne for human trafficking.
"Aria! Have you no shame? Since you're claiming Roxanne has nothing to do with you, why didn't you say that when she saved your life?!"
"Don't forget, Roxanne was the one who pushed you out of the way of that truck! If you want to argue with the Brent family now, then you should have just died back then! Roxanne has no connection to you! She had no obligation to save you!"
Hearing that Roxanne's lawyer was losing the argument, Harold slammed his hands on the table and shot to his feet, pointing at Aria as he cursed.


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