The Real Heiress’s Sharp Words Unveil Her Pain Chapter 05

Chapter 5 The Recording

Someone stumbled and hit the light switch, and the room lit up.

There was nothing romantic about the scene. Instead, the first thing everyone saw was Gideon’s bruised, battered face.

He was so badly beaten that he was dizzy, his face swollen beyond recognition. He rolled helplessly across the floor. The moment he saw the crowd, he scrambled toward them sit they were his only hope.

“Help! I swear I’ll never do it again! Help me!”

He barely got two shouts out before I slapped him aside, loosening a tooth.

I scratched my ear. “You’re so loud. Back home, a man who sneaked into a girl’s room got tied up and paraded through the streets.”

Noelle’s lips trembled. She could barely recognize Gideon. She hadn’t expected me to hit him that hard. She had expected even less that a country girl, alone in a room with a rich, handsome guy, would beat him senseless instead of flirting with him.

She stared at Gideon in anguish and clenched her teeth. She wasn’t going to let this go.

Her eyes darted around. Then she screamed and ran over. “Carley, even if Gideon didn’t want to be with you, you had no right to lose your temper and beat him like this!”

With a few words, she twisted the whole story. The others froze, then caught on.

Of course, they figured I must have tried to seduce Gideon, failed, and beaten him rage. Otherwise, why would I turn down such a catch?

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Gideon realized it too. His eyes lit up, and he nodded wildly. He mumbled through his swollen mouth, “When I came in and saw it wasn’t Noelle, I tried to leave, but then…”

He trailed off in tears and let everyone imagine the rest.

Braxton couldn’t stand it any longer. He slammed his hand on the table and glared at me. “I’m deeply disappointed in you! How could you do something so disgraceful?”

“Me, disgraceful?” I shot back. “Those two are the shameless ones. She shoved me into that room, and he barged in and told me he liked me.”

No one believed a word of it.

“You? Why would Gideon say he liked you?”

Gideon straightened up. “I’ve met every kind of woman. Why would I ever like a country hick like you?”

They all looked me over with contempt, but I stayed calm. I took out my phone and played the recording of everything that had just happened.

I had started recording when Noelle first came to see me. I only meant to capture hepology, so I could play it for her whenever she came near me. But one thing led to another, so opt recording.

Noelle panicked. She dashed over to grab my phone, but I shoved her aside.

The recording played Noelle’s attempt to lure me upstairs, followed by Gideon saying that he liked me. Everyone heard it clearly.

The room fell painfully quiet. My parents’ faces went red, then pale, then dark with anger. Gideon and Noelle screamed and collapsed on the floor, humiliated and terrified.

“No! That’s not what we said! She must have faked it to frame us!”

Even the guests had heard enough.

“Enough already. She wouldn’t even know how to fake a recording.”

Alana looked at Noelle with deep disappointment.