The Scorned Heiress's Hidden Empire (by Jade Quinn) novel Chapter 210

Chapter 210 She Gets Everything

tric sheered inwardly. “What a joke. Natalie’s just faking it, acting all figh and mighty in class, desperate to look good in front of everyone. She’s just biting off more than she can cheer. Can’t wait to see her make a fool of herself Vincent called on another girl, and once all three had finished their turn, the clade meeting wrapped up. They’d promised to visit Jonathan at the hospital today, so as soon as class was over, Lucas texted Natale Lucas: [Hey Natalie, are you done with class yet?)

[I’m waiting outside your classroom building. I’ll drive us to the hospital in a bit [

Natalie had just finished reading his message when she stepped outside and looked up. There he was.

Lucas waved at her. He was dressed in a white T-shirt, light-colored flared jeans, and a pair of light-colored sneakers. “Natalie, over here,” he called out.

Natalie put her phone away and walked over. Lucas was holding a cup of iced juice. “Here, I saw you really liked this last time.”

The sun was blazing, so Natalie pulled a black visor out of her bag and put if on before taking the juice.

“Okay,” she replied.

Lucas gave her a small smile. “Any ideas for lunch? I’ll make a reservation now, so after we leave the hospital we can head straight over.”

Natalie took a sip of her juice as they walked. “Anything’s fine.”

Lucas nodded. “Alright.”

As they walked toward the school gate, a bunch of people were watching them from behind.

“Whoa, Lucas and Natalie are that close?”

“They look so intimate. Natalie never takes anything from any other guy!”

“No way, are Lucas, Ryan, and Ethan all after her? Is Lucas really coming out on top?”

“Who knows?”

“Man, I’m so jealous Lucas. He gets to walk with the campus queen.”

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Emma stood among

the crowd, her face filled with envy as she watched Natalie and Lucas walk away. Her fingers gripped her bag so tightly that her knuckles turned white.

‘So this is what Lucas meant by “something important”?’ Emma thought, feeling annoyed. ‘Seriously? This is what he thinks is so urgent?’

She had dressed up today just to ask him out for lunch, but he turned her down, saying he had something urgent to take care of.

Emma scoffed. ‘It’s Natalie again. Besides that foxy face, what does she even have? Why does she get everything I can’t?’ She clenched her teeth and followed them. ‘Let’s see where they’re going, she thought.

As Natalie and Lucas walked out of the school gate, a black SUV was already waiting by the curb.

Lucas opened the passenger door for her, and Natalie slid in, buckling her seatbelt.

Lucas got into the driver’s seat, started the car, and the black SUV merged into traffic, heading toward the hospital.

Emma stood at the school gate, watching the SUV vanish into the traffic. She gritted her teeth, then flagged down a taxi. “Follow that black SUV up ahead,” she told the driver.

The driver glanced at her with a gossipy look, but kept his mouth shut. He just hit the gas and sped after the SUV.

The taxi tailed the SUV all the way to Harbor City General Hospital.

Emma frowned as she saw where they’d stopped. ‘A hospital?’

‘Why are they coming here?’ she wondered, puzzled.

Then she suddenly remembered. Mr. Rivers had been hospitalized after that accident at the construction site. ‘Is Lucas really bringing Natalie to visit Mr. Rivers?’ she thought, suspicion rising in her chest.

‘No way!’ Emma thought, furious.

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‘Who dues Natalie even think she is? Why would Lucas bring her to see Mr. Rivers? What gives that shameless gold digger any right?

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“How the hell did she brainwash Lucas? He actually trusts her enough to bring her to meet his parents? Emma’s hands shook with anger as she followed them, watching as they really went into Jonathan’s VIP hospital room. She stood at the corner of the hallway, staring at the closed door, her stomach twisting with jealousy and rage She wanted to storm in and expose Natalie for who she really was, right in front of Jonaffran and Evelyn, Lucas’s parents. ‘I wish I could show them right now that this so-called campus queer, and SAT top scorer is nothing but a fake heiress who got kicked out of the Grant family for stealing. She’s just some shameless gold digger, using her looks to cozy up to the rich and powerful, Emma fumed.

But she held herself back. ‘Lucas might be under Natalie’s spell, but Jonathan and Evelyn aren’t so easy to fool; Emma thought.

She knew that if she barged in now, she’d just look like she had no manners and leave a bad impression on them. She took a deep breath, forcing herself to calm down.

Evelyn was notorious for her high standards. She was picky, demanding, and difficult to please.

Countless heiresses from prestigious families had tried to marry into the Rivers family, but she shut then all out. There’s no way she’d ever accept someone like Natalie, no family background, no connections, nothing to offer. Evelyn would never approve of Natalie and Lucas being together. She’d definitely make things tough for Natalie. Thinking of this, a slow smile spread across Emma’s lips. ‘I don’t even need to do anything. I’ll just sit back and watch Natalie make a fool of herself, she thought.

‘Once I walk in and Lucas sees the difference, he’ll realize I’m the better choice. That bitch will finally see she’s out of her league and back off from Lucas,’ Emma thought, a smug smile spreading across her face.

She took a couple steps forward and stopped right outside the hospital room door. She couldn’t hear what was going on inside, but through the little window in the door, she could catch a glimpse of the scene. She was just waiting for Natalie to embarrass herself.

But in the next second, her smug smile faded instantly. What she saw completely shattered her expectations.

Jonathan was leaning back in his hospital bed, still a bit pale but looking lively. He was grinning at Natalie, talking warmly

to her.

Evelyn was sitting by the bed, holding Natalie’s hand. Her eyes were still red from crying, but now she was smiling at Natalie.

Lucas was standing nearby, peeling an apple.

Emma froze, her eyes practically popping out in disbelief.

‘What the hell? Evelyn Rivers is actually holding Natalie’s hand?

‘Everyone’s acting so friendly toward her?

‘Especially Evelyn, she’s never been this nice to anyone from a small-time family, and Natalie’s not even a real heiress, just some nobody who got kicked out!’

Emma gritted her teeth so hard she thought they might crack, her nails digging into her palms, but she didn’t even feel the

pain.

She just couldn’t wrap her head around it. ‘Why does Natalie get to have everything I can’t? What makes her so special? ‘What’s so great about that bitch anyway? Why does everyone act like she’s some kind of VIP?

‘Seriously, I’ve been chasing after Lucas for ages and can’t even get him to grab lunch with me, but Natalie doesn’t even try and everyone falls for her?’

A vicious glint flashed in Emma’s eyes. ‘Alright, if you’re going to stoop so low, don’t expect me to show any mercy, she thought.

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