Chapter 1887

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“My family is so powerful, yet you still had the nerve to frame my brother. What exactly is your endgame here?”

Claire’s gaze dropped directly to Jocelyn’s stomach.

“Are you trying to find a wealthy father for the baby in your belly?”

Her words dropped like a live grenade, blowing everyone in the room away.

Jocelyn’s innocent, pitiful expression completely froze.

“What nonsense are you talking about?” A sliver of pure panic bled into her voice.

She never in a million years expected Claire to deduce something like that out of thin air.

Owen and the others all turned their eyes to Jocelyn’s stomach.

“You’re pregnant? With whose? Xavier’s?”

“If he knocked you up, you should go shake him down. Why target me?”

“Do I look like some gullible idiot to you?”

Owen was genuinely furious, and his immediate instinct was to throw his best friend straight under the bus.

Xavier: *Thanks a lot, bro. Really feeling the love right now…*

“You’re pregnant?” Phoebe stared at Jocelyn.

Her initial reaction was disgust that Owen would assault a pregnant woman, making his crime even worse!

However, seeing the sheer terror on Jocelyn’s face brought Phoebe’s rationality rushing back.

If Jocelyn was actually pregnant, then she suddenly had a glaringly obvious motive. Was Owen actually being framed?

Though she hated to admit it, she realized she had let her initial biases cloud her judgment.

“I’m not.” Jocelyn shook her head vehemently. “Claire, I know you don’t like me, but you can’t just throw out baseless slanders like this!”

“Am I slandering you?”

Claire maintained eye contact with Jocelyn. “Why don’t we head to the hospital right now for a blood test?”

“If I’m wrong, I will personally apologize to you.”

“But if it’s not a lie and you truly are pregnant, doesn’t that perfectly

I my brother?

explain why you framed ray

You were just looking for a rich

scapegoat to claim the kid

Jocelyn was visibly trembling now.

She never imagined the sister Owen called in would be this sharp, seeing right through her secret with a single glance.

Was it a wild guess, or did this girl possess x-ray vision?

“I’m not taking that bet, and I’m not going to any hospital. Who’s to say you won’t bribe the doctors to forge a positive test result?”

The rumors online were only going to escalate. She refused to believe the Churchill family would just sit back and watch it burn.

She had witnesses. As long as she held her ground, Owen wouldn’t be able to wriggle his way out of this!

“My family isn’t omnipotent. Even if you don’t trust us, you should trust the police.” “Any medical exam arranged by the authorities will be completely impartial.”

“If you actually believe we can just buy off the police department, then what was the point of coming here to file a report in the first place?”

Claire methodically cut off every one of Jocelyn’s escape routes. Refusing the test was no longer an option.

Jocelyn pressed her lips together tightly. “Even if I was pregnant, what does that change?”

“He assaulted a pregnant woman. Doesn’t that make him even worse?”

“Claire, stop trying to twist the narrative!”

Claire turned to Owen. “Owen, look

at the mess your good deed got you

into. You tried to give her a ride

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home, and now your reputation is m

the gutter.”

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“Why don’t you ask her exactly what she wants? See if you can reach a settlement?”

Giving up already?

The two officers looked at her in disbelief.

Jocelyn, however, saw a faint glimmer of hope.

“You wouldn’t happen to demand my brother marry you as a settlement, right? That would be totally

unreasonable,” Clare said casually baiting Jocelyn when the woman remained silent.

Jocelyn opened her mouth, desperately wanting to argue. *How is that

unreasonable?*

He assaulted her in public, ruining her reputation! She could barely show her face

anymore. Wasn’t marrying him the most logical solution?

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