THE BILLIONAIRE'S VENGEFUL WIFE RETURNS
Chapter 100: BIRTHDAY GALA 2

Chapter 100: BIRTHDAY GALA 2

*SLAP*

*SLAP*

*SLAP*

All sides of Claudia’s cheeks stung with pain and humiliation. Before she could even regain her balance, Harlow shoved her backward with a force that sent her sprawling onto the cold marble floor. She has endured so much bullshit from Claudia. But the last one was just too much.

Harlow didn’t care about the people gathered in the hall. She already had a very bad reputation and was ready to maintain it.

Murmurs filled the entire Hall as everyone stared at both sisters. Claudia had invited not only her friends and fellow actors, but she had also invited their old high school classmates. Her party was designed to humiliate Harlow but it seems she’s the one being humiliated.

Her hands itched to slap Harlow back, but she knew she had to play the victim. That is her strategy anyway. Play the victim and get sympathy in the end. But Harlow cared less about her public image.

"How dare you?" From across the room, Andrew stood leaning against a column, his arms crossed. A small smile played at the corners of his lips. He wasn’t sure what Harlow was up to, but he was impressed. This wasn’t the meek, broken girl he remembered from high school. She had become a fierce, commanding woman, and it was a sight to behold.

"Harlow, what are you talking about?" Claudia cried out as she struggled to stand again and regain composure. She had no idea she would be slapped like a criminal today, if not, she would have prepared ahead. And Like always, she pretended like she had no idea what her sister was talking about.

"Stop pretending like you don’t know what I’m talking about. Can’t you see you’ve lost?" Harlow smiled. "You did that over a man I’m yet to divorce. Over my husband?" Everyone looked between themselves and then at Harlow again.

Is Harlow Blackwood and Alanis Hamilton still a couple?

Her words were unbelievable. Then why did they make their divorce public if they weren’t divorced in the first place? But what the people weren’t aware of was that Harlow and Alanis hadn’t been the ones to announce their divorce.

It was Claudia because she had ulterior motives.

They thought maybe the Hamilton’s needed the publicity to boost the Hamilton’s empire and it seemed to work because now, the Hamilton cooperation is growing rapidly.

"That’s not true. Alanis is a free man, you’re no longer married to him." Claudia shook her head. She was at the losing end, and Harlow came prepared for her. She definitely didn’t see this coming today. She had forgotten her sister wasn’t the same person she used to be. But what she didn’t understand was how Harlow changed so quickly.

It was like today she was being bullied on her wedding day and the next day she came back so tough.

"You couldn’t wait for a while before showing how much of a whore you can actually be. I let you try to marry my husband barely a week after our fake divorce." Murmurs began again as everyone looked at Claudia differently.

"Alanis will never love you, he will never be yours." Claudia frowned this time, her pity face slowly warring off. She glared at her sister.

"How embarrassing." Someone said. Claudia trying to marry her sister’s husband days after divorce was barbaric. This is what Elisa warned her about. All Harlow had to do was explain her noble act to the public and let them be the judge of it.

"Is that really what happened? Oh my, she’s truly a whore."

"I was there that day. No wonder the marriage looked so forced."

Harlow would have let things slide again, but her sister had gone out of her way to humiliate her.

Claudia clenched her fist at the number of judging eyes on her. Yes, she wasn’t perfect, but they aren’t either. They had no right to look at her the way they all did.

"What is going on here?" Elisa’s sharp voice cut through the air as she and Frank entered the hall. Her gaze swept over the scene before landing on her daughter’s disheveled figure on the floor. Her expression twisted into one of fury.

Elisa stormed forward, her heels clicking against the marble floor as she raised her hand and slapped Harlow across the face. "How dare you?!"

Harlow had been missing for weeks and the one time she came back was to humiliate her daughter. How dare the castaway daughter humiliate the new heiress. The one person set to inherit everything Frank ever owned.

Harlow didn’t flinch. Instead, she smirked, her eyes glinting with retribution, and without hesitation, she returned the slap with equal force. The sound of the impact echoed through the hall like a gunshot.

The room fell silent, the gasps louder than ever. Elisa staggered back, her hand flying to her cheek as she stared at Harlow in disbelief. Even Frank, who had been fuming just moments ago, was frozen in shock.

"How dare you lay your hands on me?" Elisa hissed, her voice dripping with venom.

Harlow tilted her head, her smirk widening. "You should’ve known this was coming when you laid your hands on me. Did you really think I would let it slide this time?"

Frank, leaning heavily on his cane, finally found his voice, his tone booming with authority. "You insolent child! How dare you strike your stepmother? After everything we’ve done for you." He raised his cane to hit her but Harlow held it.

She was done playing Miss Nice. She realized the more she tried to be sane the more they toyed with her. If she keeps up like this, she might never avenge the death of her children.

Harlow looked right into those green eyes, her expression suddenly unreadable. For a moment, her gaze lingered on the cane, her mind flashing back to a memory she had buried deep. So, it’s started already, she thought.

In her past life, her stepmother had poisoned Frank slowly. From what she recalls, it was because of his search for a male child. She was jealous. His health started deteriorating rapidly in the past for no reason. Not even the best doctors could find the cause of his illness. It’s the reason he didn’t survive the accident.

But she’s started so early in this life. Why was everything happening so differently?

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