Chapter 146: Chapter 146

The driver said, "Miss, sir asked me to pick you up for the party."

Paige Sterling covered her face slightly, looking numb, "Didn’t I say I would go later? What’s my dad doing with all this fuss?"

"Sir said a grand entrance shows off our flair."

And Paige still hadn’t dressed up, probably hadn’t even thought about it.

But Jared Sullivan had considered all that for Paige.

Not only had Jared thought about it, Julian Hawthorne had also considered it long ago.

But he was still a step behind Jared. By the time he called Paige, she had already been picked up.

Julian had no choice but to go find Paige.

The bewildered girlfriends on the square came to their senses and immediately asked Skylar Hughes.

"Skylar, what’s with your dad? Why send a car to pick up a mistress? He’s not really going to make her your stepmom, is he?"

Skylar just kept a sullen face without saying a word. Everyone thought she was upset by her dad’s antics and tried to comfort her.

Listening to their chatter, Skylar was quite annoyed and didn’t want to take this group of girlfriends anymore.

But she had already promised them, and now it was hard to brush them off; they stuck to her like glue, unless Skylar herself didn’t go, she couldn’t shake them off.

Skylar thought, since Paige was going, she couldn’t let her guard down. She had to put some extra effort into her outfit today, no way was she going to let Paige steal the spotlight.

She was determined to make Jared Sullivan see today who the daughter who could bring him honor really was!

When Paige and Julian arrived at the party, they caused quite a stir.

Julian rarely attended such business events in recent years, and even when he did, he never brought a female companion.

But today he brought Paige, shining as bright as ever.

The two stood together, a perfect match, their dazzling presence almost blinding.

Jared was very satisfied, indeed, his daughter just needed a little dressing up to be the star of the event.

As the two walked arm in arm, Sonny Chambers in the crowd wore a smirk like a cold-blooded CEO.

Burt Chambers saw his smile and twitched his lips, wondering why even though he was the second son of the Chambers family, the third son ended up with the nickname "Sonny."

He grabbed Sonny Chambers by the arm.

Sonny looked aloof, with "I’m not happy" written all over his face.

Burt handed something to Sonny, "Can you take this to Paige? Mom asked me to."

Sonny crossed his arms with an expression of reluctance, "If Mom asked, why don’t you do it yourself? Why ask me?"

Dare he say he was afraid of getting beat up by Paige?

"I thought you two were close?"

Sonny shot him a scornful look, "No, we aren’t close. You’re trying to mess with me, aren’t you?"

"Nonsense, I’m your brother!"

"Bullshit brother, beat it!"

Burt, "...," angry, went after Sonny, who hopped away.

Burt then had to reluctantly approach Paige, standing in front of her without saying a word for ages.

Paige asked, "What do you want?"

Burt said nothing, just staring at Paige.

He thought Paige looked beautiful today too, but he would never admit it out loud.

Paige gazed back at Burt, "Keep staring and I’ll give you a punch, believe it or not?"

Burt quickly handed the box to Paige, "Mom told me to give this to you."

Paige took it, opened it, and found a piece of jewelry.

Mrs. Chambers noticed Paige hadn’t worn much jewelry today, but it wasn’t because Paige didn’t want to.

But seeing Paige arriving so plainly dressed, Mrs. Chambers felt sorry for her, thinking that with her mother gone, no one had matched her outfit for this first daughter of the Sterling Family.

Look at Skylar, all dolled up in jewelry and finery, anyone would think she was the true daughter of the Sterling Family.

"Mom has some friends to entertain and can’t break away, so she asked me to bring it over. Please wear it or she’ll scold me again."

Paige responded with a sound and handed the necklace to Julian, "Help me put it on, please."

Julian remained expressionless.

Paige didn’t enjoy wearing jewelry, and the ones Julian brought with him today she hadn’t put on.

Yet now he was going to personally put on someone else’s gift for Paige.

Fortunately, since it was from an elder, Mr. Hawthorne wasn’t too petty and helped Paige put it on.

"Alright, you can tell Aunt I’ve got it on."

Burt grunted, hadn’t left yet.

Paige asked, "Anything else?"

Burt replied, "I brought you something, don’t you owe me a return favor?"

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Burt, "I heard your custom phone is really fun, can you do mine too?"

He took out his phone, looking wistful at Paige, only to hear Paige snort, "Game addict? Want me to punch you?"

He shot Paige a glare before walking away.

A few boys who were friends with Burt asked, "What’s the deal between you and that Paige?"

Burt puffed out his chest, "My sister, got it? That’s my sister."

Looking proud as if having such a sister made him remarkably cool.

The boys were shocked, "She’s your sister? Doesn’t your family have only three sons?"

"Holy crap! My first love goddess is your cousin!? Why didn’t you tell me? Huh? Afraid I’d ask for her autograph? Burt Chambers, are you really a brother?"

Burt snorted, "My cousin is amazing, but she likes to keep a low profile, nothing I can do."

Back when Paige was in the entertainment industry, many boys in their class admired Paige a lot, even the posters on their walls were of her.

Paige was like a goddess to many young homebodies.

And now, much of that admiration has turned into reverence, given she’s someone who single-handedly developed Penson in just a few months.

Although Burt pretended to not like Paige outwardly, deep down he was thrilled to have such a cousin.

Whenever he saw topics or news about Paige online, he couldn’t help but click on them.

Seeing praises for Paige, he’d click "like" and then fan-boy over her.

If he saw criticisms, he’d directly clap back, using all his accounts to fight back.

Burt didn’t even know why he acted so foolishly, but he couldn’t help it, feeling as if Paige had messed up his head.

Seeing his buddies were envious of him, Burt still acted indifferent.

"She’s just a cousin, I don’t like her at all. If you guys want, she’s all yours."