Quin Aubrey was truly panicked this time.


    He and Joy Chaucer were close, but not at all friends. Now, with things having escted to this point, the awkwardness was palpable. Quin was stunned. Sloane was equally bbergasted.


    The rumored girlfriend, upon seeing Joy Chaucer, could hardly contain her fury. “Joy Chaucer, so it’s you, you shameless hussy! You seduced my boyfriend. You despicable, low, and shameless bitch!” she eximed, as she angrily grabbed at Joy Chaucer.


    The onlookers, all from influential families, were intrigued. The boys, noticing Joy’s now all naked, looked on with interest, their eyes alight with amusement. The girls, on the other hand, were full of contempt and whispers.


    “I never expected Joy Chaucer to be such a person,” they murmured among themselves.


    “A nobody, and a flirtatious yboy-indeed a perfect match.”


    “This is simply shameless. At a birthday party? Couldn’t they wait?”


    “They’ve lost all face.”


    “I’ve often seen Quin Aubrey and Joy Chaucer together, but I never realized they were this close-close enough to end up in bed!”


    The scandalous scene let everyone’s imagination run wild. They were adults, after all, and from the looks of it, they knew exactly what had happened.


    Regaining hisposure, Quin picked up a nket and wrapped it around Joy Chaucer. Suddenly, Joy’s eyes welled up with tears, and she pped Quin across the face, “Bastard!”


    Quin took the p silently. “I didn’t know it was you… I thought…” He trailed off, fearing to implicate Tessa and draw the wrath of the Granger family.


    Joy Chaucer, on the verge of a breakdown, screamed in frustration. She wished she could disappear; she had never felt so humiliated. The disdainful looks from everyone made her face burn with embarrassment. She noticed Terrence Sterling in the crowd and opened her mouth to exin, but words failed her, and she broke down crying.


    Sloane was also annoyed. What was meant to be a simple setup had been ruined by Joy Chaucer. Seeing Joy cry, Sloane couldn’t hold back. “Miss Chaucer, no matter how you and Quin Aubrey can’t wait to have each other, you should consider the asion. Today is my sister’s birthday, and your actions show a total disregard for the Granger family, creating nothing but chaos.”


    Sloane’s words only added fuel to the fire. Draped in a bedsheet, Joy Chaucer walked straight up to Sloane, her gaze fixed. “It was you! Sloane, this is all your doing. You ruined me, you ruined everything. The Granger family will have to answer for this, my mother won’t let you off!”


    Sloane, feeling guilty yet defiant, retorted, “What does this have to do with the Granger family? It was clearly you and Quin Aubrey caught together. Just now Quin admitted everything. The Granger family is not involved at all.”


    “Rubbish,” Joy Chaucer shot back, not one to take things lying down. She pointed at Sloane, “You plotted against your sister. You had someone drug her drink, I saw it with my own eyes. I was only here to warn Tessa. When I entered the room, Quin Aubrey was already… I even asked the staff, Tessa was supposed to be resting in this room. If you don’t believe it, find Tessa and ask her. She was drugged, and for all we know, she might be with some man right now.”


    Her reputation destroyed, Joy Chaucer was determined to drag Tessa and Sloane down with her. She med the Granger sisters for her plight.


    Her usations were like a thunderp, suggesting a scandalous feud between the Granger sisters-Sloane’s malevolent machinations against her own sister?


    Sloane panicked, shouting, “Joy Chaucer, you are talking nonsense! Don’t you dare nder the Granger family and smear my sister?”


    Sloane attempted to deflect, vehemently denying the usations and defending Tessa, showcasing sisterly love while subtly glossing over the drugging usation.


    Outside the crowd, Mr. Granger, having overheard Joy’s ims, looked sharply at Sloane, believing the allegations to be true.N?velDrama.Org owns all content.


    Joy Chaucer confronted Sloane loudly, “You’re lying. I saw it with my own eyes. You handed a packet of drugs to a waiter to slip into Tessa’s drink. If you deny it, bring that waiter here for a confrontation, and let’s see if Tessa is under the influence right now.”


    Amidst the charged atmosphere, everyone looked around, the magnitude of the scandal bing apparent. The party had turned into a spectacle of family discord and usations.


    Just then, Tessa appeared, dressed in clean clothes and seemingly unaffected, asking innocently, “What’s going on? Dad, Sloane, what happened? Joy Chaucer, what are you… you…”


    “Herees Tessa, let’s ask her,” Joy Chaucer said, grasping at straws, her voice desperate. She grabbed Tessa’s hand. “Tell everyone, were you drugged? Were you just in room 306?”


    “Drugged? What drugs?” Tessa feigned confusion, “No, what are you talking about, Joy Chaucer? I don’t understand.”