He Lost Me to His Best Friend novel Chapter 463

Sylvia took a deep breath, stepping away to answer the call. "Dad..."

An icy, furious voice immediately blasted through the speaker. "Sylvia, what on earth is going on? You just officially returned to this family, and you’re already dragging our name through the mud! Do you have any idea what a laughingstock we are right now?"

Craig Schmidt had just returned from a business trip abroad when the disastrous gossip from the charity gala reached him. Overjoyed to have finally reunited with his long-lost daughter, he had rushed to host a grand family reunion gala to proudly introduce her to high society.

But she hadn't told him the truth. He thought she was merely a divorcee raising a child on her own. He had no idea the boy was the product of an affair. Now, everyone in Bay City's elite circles knew his newly claimed daughter was an adulteress who had brazenly paraded her illegitimate child around.

The Schmidts were an old-school, principled family. Craig and his sons prided themselves on their clean reputations. Even when they had internal drama, it stayed firmly behind closed doors. To have their newly minted daughter turn them into a public spectacle was deeply humiliating.

Sylvia’s hand trembled as she desperately tried to do damage control. "Dad, please, listen to me! It’s not what it looks like! Let me come home and explain everything in person, please? I was framed!"

She layered her voice with a thick, tearful wobble, sounding like the victim of a grave injustice.

Craig’s harsh tone softened just a fraction. "Fine. Come home. We’ll discuss this face-to-face."

She hung up, her heart pounding frantically against her ribs. The Stetson and Flynn families were completely useless to her now; the Schmidts were the only card she had left to play. Even though she had just met him, she could tell Craig genuinely cared for her. She had to exploit that fatherly affection. She wasn’t going to let Scarlett ruin this for her.

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