Chapter 322: Chapter 322

So these days, Yvette Hughes has been searching high and low for a match for Skylar Hughes, and she actually found one.

Yvette Hughes told Skylar Hughes about it, and Skylar couldn’t believe it.

"Mom! You actually want to marry me off?"

Yvette said, "I’m doing this for your own good, Skylar. You can’t go on ."

Yvette was truly exhausted now, but she couldn’t just ignore this daughter of hers. She even had the thought that it might be better to have this daughter cause trouble for someone else rather than for the Sterling Family.

It felt like if she could marry Skylar off, she might finally be relieved and not caught in the dilemma between Skylar and the Sterling Family.

Skylar was furious, but then she thought for a moment—now was not the time to defy Yvette.

Besides, there was no harm in meeting the person.

However, Yvette didn’t expect that as soon as she sat down, the other party would scrutinize her with a critical and even assessing gaze, speaking with no courtesy at all.

"I heard, Miss Hughes, that you stole confidential files from Penson Technologies and tried to sell them to Penson’s competitor, Apex. Is there any truth to that?"

Everyone knew that Skylar Hughes grew up with the Sterling Family. The Sterlings had no obligation to raise her but did so anyway. Now that she’s grown, she’s been causing trouble for the Sterling’s real daughter everywhere. That’s already quite ungrateful, and adding on the matter of stealing confidential files from Penson, most families can’t tolerate such an ungrateful woman. Who knows if she might stab them in the back one day.

So he certainly needed to ask clearly about it.

Abruptly hearing such words, Skylar’s face went stiff.

After the incident, Yvette managed to persuade Jared Sullivan, and Jared could not successfully file a report, so the matter never got out, and she finally breathed a sigh of relief.

But how could it be ? How could anyone know about this now?

Was it Paige Sterling! Was Paige still trying to exterminate her completely?

Or was it leaked from the Hale Family?

While a storm raged in her heart, Yvette wore an innocent face.

"How could I possibly steal confidential files from Penson? How could I even have access to them? I thought no one smart would believe such an unfounded rumor."

The implication being that if you believe it, you’re a fool.

However, the other party obviously didn’t believe Skylar’s words too much. After all, there were detailed accounts of the matter, and Skylar’s reputation wasn’t great, so it wasn’t strange for her to have done such a thing.

"Is that so? My sister is good friends with the Miss from the Hale Family. She mentioned that you took the stolen Penson files to the Hale Family and tried to blackmail them into marrying you, but you were rejected?"

Skylar’s fingers clenched tightly, and her expression twisted almost uncontrollably.

It was Helen that cripple!

Ugly people cause trouble, being like that but still daring to spread rumors about her outside!

"That didn’t happen..."

"Oh, but a while ago, you were clearly close with the Hale family’s Crown Prince Henry Hale, and now it seems you have no interaction with him. Isn’t it because you threatened the Hale Family and angered them?"

Skylar stared fiercely at the man across from her, "What exactly do you mean?"

If it was before, she would have already thrown coffee on him and left. Orıginal content can be found at 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵·𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖·𝙣𝙚𝙩

But now, she couldn’t. She no longer had the luxury of being willful.

The man chuckled, "I don’t mean anything. It’s a blind date—surely one has to ask clearly and understand the other person’s character, right? We can’t just get married in a muddleheaded way, can we?"

The truth was, he didn’t think much of Skylar. After all, if she really did such things, hoping to use this connection to climb to a relationship with the Sterling Family was clearly unlikely.

After all, the Sterlings weren’t fools either.

Without the Sterling connection, Skylar had nothing else to offer, or he wouldn’t have treated her so dismissively.

As he spoke to this point and Skylar still held her tongue, it was evident that she really had no retreat now.

A woman who lost the protection of the Sterling Family, infamous as she was, who wasn’t out of her mind, would marry such a woman?

The man showed his disdain unabashedly on his face, and Skylar’s expression was terribly unsightly. She didn’t even despise this man, yet he dare to be so critical of her?

Who did he think he was?

But the situation was indeed as Yvette said—given her current reputation and conditions, it was impossible to find someone better.

Certainly, it was impossible for her to genuinely be satisfied with marrying such a person.

However, making the other party willingly contribute to her as a backup gave her a sense of achievement, so Skylar did not become disheartened and wanted to restore her image in his heart.

Later, she used all her usual tactics, like being hot and cold, playing hard to get, but whether intentionally or not, the other party responded in kind, as if he too was a seasoned player.

She even saw that the man continued to see other girls and was quite passionate with them too, apparently treating her as a backup as well.

Skylar was increasingly annoyed. She had always been the one playing people; now she was being toyed with?

And the root cause of all this was Paige Sterling!

Paige Sterling was the original sin, and as long as Paige was gone, she would definitely return to her previous position! All outstanding men would revolve around her!

In a bad mood, Skylar didn’t expect to run into Julian Hawthorne’s aunt, Faye Hawthorne, at the mall.

Faye Hawthorne and Archie Archer had not yet returned home; she planned to stay a while longer before going back.

Skylar saw Faye and approached to greet her.

Faye appeared somewhat embarrassed, "Oh, it’s Miss Hughes."

Skylar smiled slightly, "Mrs. Acker, speaking of which, our families are relatives, you don’t have to be so distant from me, just call me Skylar."

Faye thought to herself, "What kind of relative is that? Skylar isn’t even part of the Sterling Family."

Skylar quite familiarly ran over and took Faye’s arm, "Auntie, we happened to run into each other today, why not have a coffee together?"

Faye naturally wanted to refuse, but Skylar held her arm tightly.

"Auntie, you won’t refuse me, right?"

Faye started, "I have other..."

Before the sentence could leave her mouth, Skylar looked pitifully and said, "Last time Auntie, you said not to treat me as an outsider..."

Faye, "...What exactly do you want?"

Skylar slightly lowered her head, "Auntie, let’s find a place to talk."

In the end, Faye reluctantly left with Skylar. Speaking of the previous ridiculous mix-up, seeing Skylar did indeed make her feel guilty.