Julian still wanted to say something. Then Nadia ran over.
"Julian, don't be like this..."
She turned to me, her voice shaking. "Clara, you can't do this to Julian. He waited for you for seven years. How can you just switch to someone else?"
I smiled faintly.
Ethan's assistant stepped forward and held out his phone.
"Miss West, this is the banquet hall surveillance footage. Ten minutes before you came in, you put the earrings into the inner pocket of your bag yourself. Should I play it for everyone?"
Nadia's face went white. "You're lying—"
"There's more." The assistant played a recording.
"This is your call from last week, when you asked the host to delay the ceremony until after ten."
Her lips started to tremble.
"Miss West, can you explain why your father's doctor received a p
