He Lost Me to His Best Friend novel Chapter 556

Despite everything, Scarlett couldn't shake the feeling that the gaze burning into her from the driver's seat was a little too intense. Was that really how a brother looked at a sister?

Her mind buzzed with romantic static the entire drive, and she absolutely refused to turn her head, terrified of meeting his eyes.

***

Inside the grandest private dining room of the Rainwatch Pavilion.

Quentin Thorne sat dead center, his face dark as a storm cloud, surrounded by his entourage. They were waiting for her to arrive.

Behind him, Veronica wore a clinging, bright yellow off-the-shoulder gown and a slash of crimson lipstick. She was eagerly massaging Quentin's shoulders.

The threats Scarlett had leveled against her, combined with the incriminating videos, had left Veronica deeply unsettled for days. But she was the type of woman used to doing the threatening, not being the one threatened.

It had only taken her one day to formulate a counterattack.

First, she leveraged the Architecture Summit to secure two massive contracts for Thorne Industries. This left Quentin beaming, convinced of his daughter's brilliant business acumen.

Riding the wave of his good mood, she had spun a highly edited version of her involvement with Yardley, making sure she came out looking like the victim. In her telling, Yardley and Scarlett's marriage had been dead for years, and Scarlett was merely dragging out the divorce out of spite.

She claimed that she and Yardley were deeply in love, and in a moment of drunken passion, they had crossed a line, but hadn't actually slept together. She insisted Scarlett was the villain, planting hidden cameras to sabotage them and resorting to dirty tricks to steal the Thorne Industries contract from the Flynn Group.

She laid all this groundwork for one reason: to ensure her father wouldn't fall for Scarlett's lies. More importantly, she wanted him to use his home-turf advantage in Sutton City to force Scarlett to hand over the videos.

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