Unwanted Fake Wife The Top Billionaire novel Chapter 347

Chapter 347 The Hart Family’s Demise

It wasn’t long before the car pulled up outside the funeral home.

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Nearly everyone with any connection to the Hart family had shown up, and the lawn outside was crowded with parked cars. The moment Elena stepped out with Evelyn and Sophia, she could feel eyes turning toward them from all directions, curious, measuring, eager to watch, but she behaved as though she noticed none of it and walked straight into the main hall.\\

The first thing she heard was Camille crying.

Dressed all in black, with a mourning band tied around her arm, Camille was leaning against Nathan, sobbing so delicately that she looked almost pitiful.

Less than a month had passed, and yet Richard already seemed to have aged visibly. When he saw Elena, his lips twitched as though he wanted to say something, but the instant his gaze shifted to Evelyn beside her, he swallowed the words.

Elena had no interest in exchanging pleasantries.

She walked forward, took three sticks of incense, lit them, and bowed three times with her head slightly

inside lowered. Just as she was about to place the incense into the burner, something seemed to snap Camille. She rushed over and struck Elena hard across the back of the hand, sending the incense flying from her fingers and scattering to the floor.

Luckily, Sophia caught Elena in time, keeping her from losing her balance.

“And who asked you to come here and put on this hypocritical act?” Camille demanded, her eyes full of bitterness and hatred. “Everyone knows you never got along with my mother. For all anyone knows, maybe you’re the reason she’s dead. Elena, get out.“/

“Your mother?” Elena gave a cold, mocking laugh.

Then she looked at Camille with open sarcasm.

“Do I need to remind you that you stopped being part of the Hart family a long time ago? Back when your biological parents found you, they wanted to send you to the countryside and you refused because you couldn’t bear to leave Richard and Catherine. Now that it’s time to return to the Sterlings, suddenly there’s nothing you can’t bear to part with. So what changed? Did you suddenly discover family warmth in the Sterling household, or did you just realize the Hart family can no longer give you everything you want?”

She had come to attend Catherine’s memorial service, but that did not mean she had come here to let Camille humiliate her.

Camille’s face turned a sickly mix of green and purple, and when she noticed that Nathan’s gaze was still resting on Elena, her anger only flared higher.

“Stop twisting things,” she snapped. “If you hadn’t upset Mom the last time, she wouldn’t have ended up in

that accident. Get out. You’re not welcome here.”

“I was leaving anyway.”

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Chapter 347 The Hart Family’s Demise

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Elena had never intended to stay long. She turned to take Evelyn’s arm and leave, but Richard hurried

over at once.

“Elena.”

The smile on his face was almost embarrassingly ingratiating.

“What is it?” Elena asked, looking at the man whose temples had already gone gray.

Richard cast a careful glance at Evelyn first, and only after confirming that she showed no obvious impatience did he finally dare continue.

“I know you were angry with your mother and me before,” he said cautiously, “but your mother is gone now. Can we just let the past go and act as though none of it ever happened?”

There was even a hint of pleading in his tone, as though he were afraid of offending her.

Elena knew exactly what he was thinking.

The Hart family’s situation had been deteriorating badly lately, and Camille, having transformed overnight from the Hart family’s daughter into the Sterling family’s daughter, was no longer a reliable source of support. The Sterlings were far too proud to let her funnel their resources back into the Harts, which meant that if Richard wanted to keep the Hart family from collapsing, he had only two choices: squeeze what he could out of Camille, or try to gain something from Elena.

And clearly, Camille’s position in the Sterling family was much weaker than Richard had hoped, otherwise he would never have lowered himself like this in front of Elena.

Elena lifted her eyes, glanced toward Camille, and smiled in a way that gave nothing away.

“I’m not that vindictive,” she said lightly. “The dead are gone. There’s nothing left worth pursuing.”

“That’s good. That’s good.”

Richard actually smiled with relief, and the expression looked almost grotesque against the solemn stillness of the memorial hall.

Elena did not stay any longer. She left with Evelyn and Sophia, and just as she had expected, it took only two days before Richard called her and asked to meet.

When the call came, Elena was at the research institute with Gideon.

After the medical accident at Pinecrest Medical Center, Laura Bennett had finally accepted Gideon’s attempt to make amends and agreed to let him treat her daughter personally. This time he did not dare be careless in the slightest. He handled everything himself, and fortunately, the results had been encouraging. Elena handed him a copy of Alexander’s medical records from abroad and asked him to put Alexander’s case at the top of his list.

Gideon frowned as he read through the file.

“I know this is sudden, and I know I’m asking a lot of you,” Elena said quietly, “but there’s no one else I trust

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