However, what he had not expected was that Jim’s mother would expose such information at such a time.
Nonetheless, this was also predictable.
Jim wanted to fight for the royal sucession, and of course, his mother wanted to help him.
Just like how Camille helped Carter.
Old Master Gray’s expression gradually looked displeased, and then he looked at Carter and spoke with a much calmer tone.
“Carter, this is a big deal. Is your aunt telling the truth?”
“Dad, how would I dare to speak nonsense during such an occasion?” Jim’s mother was confident; she had her card up her sleeve.
However, Carter did not panic at all. He smiled softly and parted his lips slowly.
“Aunty, if you want to say this, then yes, Eveline is indeed a married woman because a few months ago, Eveline and I had already signed the marriage certificate. After that, for some reason, Eveline and I never held the wedding.”
Carter spoke with a faint smile, looking slyly at Jim’s mother.
“Aunty, I know you really want Jimmy to win the right to rule. That’s why you want to cause trouble at my wedding with Eveline so that grandpa will change his impression of me. But do you think grandpa will believe your one -sided statement so easily?”
Carter said and turned to face the guests again.
“I believe everyone remembers receiving my wedding invitation a few months ago. I was about to marry Eveline but because of the appearance of a man who claimed to be Eveline’s husband, the wedding was temporarily terminated. In fact, that man was just a delirious, mentally ill patient, and these are well documented.”
After he was finished speaking, he did not forget to look at Jim’s mother with a serious face.
“Aunty, I know you really want to fight for Jimmy’s right to rule, but if you use this method to slander me, it will only ruin grandpa’s image of Jimmy.”
Upon hearing Carter’s words, Jim’s mother’s face fell, and she snapped back in anger.
“Carter, how dare you say that I’m slandering you! What I said is all true! What mentally ill patient? That man is Eveline’s real husband! ”
Jim’s mother spoke with her arms folded and sneered coldly. “Hmph. Carter, do you think we don’t know? You married Eveline just to use her background to increase your chances in the fight for the right to rule. You are using her!
“Dad, Carter is a very devious man. If you were to give St. Piaf to him, you wouldn’t be able to imagine what St. Piaf will become! ”
Old Master Gray hated it when people involved politics in his family matters. At this moment, his expression looked displeased.
Carter knew what the Old Master was thinking, and he smiled magnanimously.
“Grandpa, this is all a misunderstanding. How can I marry a married woman? Besides, Eveline isn’t an ordinary person. How would she marry me if she knows she has a husband? This is bigamy. Do you think that this is possible?”
Carter lifted his eyes to look at Niamh who was silent the entire time. He then slowly parted his lips.
“Eveline, why don’t you tell everyone in case everyone misunderstands you.”
Niamh blinked her beautiful eyes. When she was about to speak, she heard Jim chuckling next to her.
“Ask her? Heh.” Jim’s eyes were filled with disdain. “Everyone knows that the noble viscount has an extraordinary skill of hypnosis. Eveline has been hypnotized by you long before this.”
Carter, instead of being angry when he was exposed, smiled. “This is a joke. How can Eveline be hypnotized?”
He looked at Niamh after he had said that with a serious face.
“Eveline, tell everyone. Did I hypnotize you?”
Niamh looked at Carter and then looked at the people around her who were waiting for her answer. Suddenly, she smiled.
“Of course, I’m not hypnotized.” Niamh’s answer was simple, clear, and very certain.
Carter was very satisfied with this answer. However, in his heart, he suddenly felt that something was wrong.
Niamh’s answer was too certain.
She did not look like a hypnotized person at all.
At one side, Jim’s mother laughed again. “This is such a joke. You’re asking a hypnotized person to answer this kind of question. Would she know whether she’s hypnotized?”
“You’re right. A hypnotized person certainly wouldn’t know whether they’ve been hypnotized because they wouldn’t have their own thoughts.
But madam, I, Eveline Montgomery, am not hypnotized.”
Niamh’s tone was confident. As she said that, she turned her eyes to Carter. The look in his eyes started to change.
“Because my hypnosis has been broken.”
This was the answer Carter did not want to hear. It was also the answer that shocked him.
How was that possible?
Niamh’s hypnosis was broken again?
Were all his plans going to be interrupted at the most critical time again just like last time?
No.
Carter would not allow that to happen.
Upon noticing that the Old Master’s expression had sunk, Carter quickly spoke.
“Eveline, what are you talking about?”
Niamh curled her charming pink lips. “I’m speaking the human language. What’s wrong, Mr. Gray? Don’t you understand what I’m saying?”
“…” Carter was alarmed by Niamh’s answer.
Jim, Jim’s mother, and the guests around them were all looking at each other. They did not know what was going on, but based on Niamh’s gestures and expression, they could guess what was going on.
Among the crowd, Camille started to get fretful. However, Carter was still doing his best to remain calm.
“Eveline, is something upsetting you? Are you unhappy that I had neglected you because I was busy with the wedding preparations? You dummy, don’t throw a tantrum at this moment. You have to remember that you’re pregnant. This isn’t good for the baby.”
“Pregnant?” Niamh lifted her proud and beautiful eyebrows. “I was only pregnant with the children of one man in my whole life. He is my one and only husband and lover, Kendrick Waldburg.”
“Kendrick Waldburg?”
“I’ve heard this name before.”
“She’s the wife of the number one young master of Glendale!”
Niamh heard the exclamations around her. She looked at Carter’s expression that was going to collapse at any second, and the smile on her face was even wider now.
“Carter, does it feel good to fool the hearts of others? Now, not only am I going to tell everyone, but I’m also going to tell you that anyone who fools people’s hearts is despicable. In the end, they will, in turn, get fooled and end up like this.”
”Carter Gray, you lose!”
“Carter Gray, you lose.”
Those four words gently drifted into Carter’s ears. Niamh’s voice, so pleasant to the ear, sounded extremely piercing to Carter right now.
An icy glint flashed across his cold eyes, but Niamh looked into his eyes fearlessly.
“Carter, you didn’t expect this, did you? My hypnosis was broken again. Everyone says that you’ re the master of hypnosis and that you have amazing hypnosis skills, but this shows that you’re not that great after all.”
Niamh parted her lips and continued with a slightly sarcastic tone.
“But perhaps it was because you had kept fighting for the royal succession, so your skills have deteriorated.”
Niamh’s words made Carter furrow his brows slowly.
At that moment, he did not know how to retort Niamh, yet he did not allow himself to stay silent for long.
A few seconds later, Carter chuckled lowly.
“Eveline, are you still mad at me? There are so many guests, and grandpa is also here. Stop making a fuss.”
Carter was speaking in a pleasant tone, furiously hinting at Niamh to take back what she said.
However, Niamh would not care about Carter’s hints of course.
“Carter, don’t always think about deceiving others. No matter how smart and skillful you are, it would be tragic for the people of St. Piaf to have someone like you as their next monarch.”
Niamh hit right where it hurt and did not hold back at all.
Carter stayed silent. He did not speak any further.
He could hear whispers all around him, and the fire in his heart intensified whenever the words crawled into his ear.
At this moment, the happiest person right now was Jim’s mother.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.