Claudia felt terrible in that moment as she didn't expect the Ripleys to try and humiliate her in public. “Why do you have to be so rude?” She asked with Linda scoffing in response. “The Ripleys are now part of the affluent families in Crystal Falls and a nobody like you shouldn't be in our midst to avoid tainting us with your poor aura. Now get as far away from us as possible!” Claudia felt insulted but didn't bother to retort as she left the area with George only to get in through the VIP entrance. Meanwhile, Samuel, one of those who had courted Claudia only to be rejected, wasn't satisfied with just this amount of humiliation, as he remarked. “Aunty, we should be careful of Claudia, we can't let her pretend to be part of the family to get in.” Everyone agreed with Samuel, consideri

