Chapter 1056
This was her go-to tactic.
Just like how she had snatched their child away from Carman’s mother recently, using the baby as leverage to drag out the divorce proceedings.
Carman fell silent for a moment.
Jasmine smugly thought her threat had worked.
But a second later, Carman replied, “Fine. I’ll leave with nothing, but I get full custody of our child.”
Jasmine practically lost her mind. “Carman Holt, in your dreams!”
She lunged at him, grappling with him right there in the hall.
That was the exact moment Crystal and her group arrived.
She had come hoping to watch Noreen be humiliated, only to find Jasmine making a fool of herself.
Her excitement instantly evaporated. Looking over at the vibrant, bustling atmosphere of Noreen’s ballroom in the distance, her eyes dimmed with gloom.
Did that many people really show up?
As she frowned in confusion, Nancy suddenly spoke up, her voice filled with delight. “Dylan?”
Crystal’s heart skipped a beat, and she quickly snapped her gaze toward the entrance.
Dylan Wilder was rushing in, looking as though he were pressed for time, taking long, urgent strides.
Because of his pace, he completely missed Nancy calling out to him the first time.
Instead, he made a beeline straight for Noreen’s ballroom.
Nancy had to raise her voice. “Dylan! Over here! You’re going the wrong way! Crystal’s party is in this hall, not that one!”
Dylan paused mid-step and finally glanced over at Nancy and Crystal.
The forced smile on Crystal’s face completely shattered the second Dylan started walking toward Noreen’s event.
To placate her parents, she had fed
he
them endless excuses, claiming was utterly consumed by his career and out of the country on a business trip. FindNovel.net
She never imagined that the man she claimed was “too busy to breathe” would casually stroll right into their line of sight.
After a brief two-second pause looking at Nancy and Crystal, Dylan turned and continued walking toward Noreen’s side.
Every step he took was full of purpose, as if that ballroom was his only intended destination for the night.
To him, the elaborate birthday party Crystal had meticulously planned was nothing more than an irrelevant backdrop.
Crystal’s fingers clenched so hard her knuckles turned a ghastly shade of pale white.
The color drained from her face at a visible rate.
Her perfectly applied makeup suddenly felt like a cruel, mocking mask.
She opened her mouth, desperate to call out to him.
But her throat felt as though it were stuffed with ice-cold cotton. Not a single sound came out.
Shame, shock, fury, and the devastating humiliation of being publicly trampled on.
It all crashed over her at once, burning her ears while turning her heart to ice.
“What is Dylan doing?” Nancy asked, genuinely baffled.
Her mother’s confusion felt like a stinging slap across Crystal’s face.
She watched helplessly as Dylan didn’t even break his stride,
completely ignoring Nancy’s calls resolutely disappearing into the other venue.
The guests she had eagerly dragged out to watch a spectacle now turned their piercing gazes onto her.
No one said a word, but the silence felt like deafening mockery.
Her shoulders trembled uncontrollably, mirroring her crumbling dignity.
She stared intensely at his
unapologetic back, the last shred of
her forged composue
breaking, leaving behind nothing but utter humiliation.
She was the spectacle tonight.