Chapter 345: Chapter 345

Looking at Paige Sterling with an air of nonchalance, Skylar Hughes was stunned, as if she had been struck by lightning.

Then, her emotions suddenly flared up, "Paige, you’ve always been , always , and that’s why I despise you! I hate you!"

She leapt up, ready to claw at Paige’s face if it weren’t for the glass separating them.

"What makes you so superior? Why do you get whatever you want, while I have to live a hard life, humbling myself just for a little bit of nice food and clothes? Why do you get to be so much luckier than me?"

Being born into a good family is a skill, Paige was fortunate, but why did she have such capability, why did she light up and glow wherever she went, overshadowing her?

She had worked so hard, but it never matched up to Paige, the world was unfair to her, was she wrong to seek her own fairness?

"What if I harmed you? You were the one blocking my path, so what I did was your fault, you were wrong; you shouldn’t have been born into this world, you shouldn’t have become Jared Sullivan’s daughter! I should have been Jared Sullivan’s daughter, I should have been the one in the spotlight!"

Skylar Hughes’s expression was deranged, having fallen to this state, she was now reckless, venting her long-standing resentment.

Paige quietly listened to her talk, waiting until she had nothing left to say, and then smiled.

"To be honest, being envied by someone like you doesn’t give me any sense of achievement at all."

A light remark, as if diminishing all of Skylar Hughes’s hatred to nothing.

Because what did it matter if she envied Paige or hated her?

To Paige, her hatred or resentment was worthless.

Skylar Hughes started to laugh, and as she laughed, her face turned pitiful like someone with intermittent mental illness.

"Paige, you’re so impressive, so powerful, I’m worthless in your eyes, since that’s the case why are you still fussing with me? Why can’t you treat me like a fart and let it go?"

Paige, "No, because flies may be small, but they’re still disgusting."

Skylar Hughes bit her teeth hard, "Paige, I’m apologizing to you, this time I really realized my mistake, will you forgive me? I promise I won’t go against you anymore, I won’t appear before you."

Paige, "You can grovel a bit more."

Skylar Hughes’s face grew more and more distorted, yet she humbly said, "Paige, my mom and your dad still have to live their lives, don’t make things so extreme, it’ll trouble Uncle Sterling, you don’t care about my mom, but you should think about Uncle Sterling..."

Paige fell silent for a moment, Skylar thought her words had had an effect. ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ꜰʀᴏᴍ 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡•𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚•𝙣𝙚𝙩

But then Paige said, "You probably don’t know, my dad is divorcing your mom."

Skylar’s heart skipped a beat, immediately she lost her reaction.

At that moment, Jared Sullivan was pushing the divorce papers in front of Yvette Hughes.

Yvette saw the word ’divorce’ and her eyes widened, quickly filling with tears.

She stared dumbfounded at Jared, "Jared, you’re divorcing me?"

Before Jared could say anything, she quickly shook her head, "No, no, you must be joking, Jared don’t joke , I’m still afraid..."

Yvette was like a dodder flower, her only merit was living by attaching to a man.

Such a woman, if she married a capable man, would naturally have a smooth life.

But she originally married Mr. Hughes, whose family background was ordinary. At first, he might have been infatuated with this wife who depended on him for everything, as it greatly satisfied his masculine dignity.

But marriage is not only about romance, it involves the daily grind of life.

Yvette knew nothing and could only rely on a man when things happened; over time, the man would also get tired.

So, eventually, Mr. Hughes divorced her, but she was lucky to meet Jared Sullivan next.

Jared was wealthy; he could let her be a dodder flower for life, so being with Jared was the happiest time she had ever experienced, she just needed to be demure, without having to worry about anything else.

But now, Jared wanted to divorce her, what should she do?

"Jared, speak, tell me that you’re joking..."

Jared said nothing, divorcing at this time, he was bound to be condemned.

However, when others thought about what Skylar Hughes had done, they would understand.

Because Skylar was Yvette’s daughter, would she have dared to do such things without Yvette’s conniving?

Jared’s divorce was simply the only solution left.

Moreover, he hadn’t wronged Skylar, even in divorce, nothing was taken away from Yvette in terms of house and money.

As long as Yvette didn’t stay entangled with Skylar and Chloe, this money was enough for her to live worry-free for the rest of her life.

As for dividing half of the family assets to Yvette, that was impossible because half of the Sterling Family’s assets were originally his first wife’s, he could only divide his own half.

And to be blunt, if Yvette were given so much money, with the way the Hughes family relatives were, she could never have a peaceful life.

Though divorcing, Jared deemed that he had thought through everything for Yvette’s sake, fulfilling his duty to the utmost.

With things having come to this point, both had their share of the blame, and now neither could be blamed, and neither should begrudge anyone as they went their separate ways and lived their own lives.

Yvette refused to sign, yet Jared didn’t force her, giving her time to consider, before leaving.

Yvette never expected that she would lose her child and then her marriage so soon.

What had she done wrong?

Jared had hinted at his intention to divorce to Paige long ago, it was Jared’s business, and Paige wouldn’t interfere.

However, thinking about her father’s recently frail silhouette, she felt distressed, suggesting to Julian Hawthorne, "How about we move back to the Sterling Family’s house to keep Dad company for a while?"

Julian put down the document in his hand and looked at her, "He probably needs some peace and quiet."

Paige thought the same, her dad’s mind was probably in turmoil, he hadn’t even returned home and stayed elsewhere, it was better not to disturb him.

Paige had skipped classes for two months before returning to school for formal classes, and she had also reduced her course load from before.

Yet no one dared to have an opinion about it — she was already so busy, taking time out of her hectic schedule to teach was considered dedicated enough, who would dare to have an opinion?

After finishing class and stepping out of school one day, Paige was blocked by Mona Wright.

Whenever something happened with Skylar, Mona would pop up to make her presence known, Paige was used to it by now.

As expected, the first thing Mona brought up was Skylar.

"Paige, why did you frame Skylar that way?"

Mona rattled on like a rapid-fire, "I know you don’t like Skylar, but you can’t frame her this way, she’s still so young, and you’re sending her to jail, what will happen to her in the future? Though you’re only sisters in name, don’t you think what you did was vicious? And, and..."

Mona grew increasingly angry, "Besides, today I went to see Skylar, do you know? She was bleeding and hospitalized! She was pregnant, and nearly lost the baby, yet you still want her imprisoned, how is that different from taking a life?"

Paige raised an eyebrow, pregnant—