This situation was unfavorable to Carter, but this meant that it was great for Jim. Of course, as Jim’s mother, she was ecstatic.
Old Master Gray had not spoken for a long time. Presently, he looked at Carter who had been staying silent, and the Old Master finally spoke.
“Carter, you should answer me honestly in front of so many friends and family.” The old master’s face looked solemn, wisdom glinting in his aged eyes.
“Did you marry Miss Eveline Montgomery to use her identity and background to get the right to rule?”
Old Master Gray’s question was straight to the point. The atmosphere and air around them seemed to freeze in that instant. Everyone was waiting for Carter’s answer.
Camille was standing at one side. She looked worried and anxious.
Carter lowered his eyes and denied directly. “No, I would never use this kind of despicable means to reach my goals.”
“No, you did.”
This statement came from the crowd the next second after Carter denied that.
Carter’s pupils enlarged, seemingly in shock. In disbelief, he lifted his stunned but handsome face and followed everyone’s gaze toward the source of the voice.
He had not heard it wrongly because the person in front of him was none other than Shirley.
Shirley, seated in her wheelchair, moved the wheelchair skillfully and calmly toward Carter.
Old Master Gray and the Grays were not unfamiliar with Shirley. However, her current disfigured face and disability shocked everyone.
“Shirley?” Jim’s mother was the first one to exclaim in astonishment. “ It really is her. It’s been so many years, but how did she become like this?” exclaimed another shocked rich woman when she saw Shirley.
Aside from the exclamations from the people who knew Shirley, the people who did not know Shirley also looked shocked.
“Who is that woman?”
“It seems that she’s here to expose Carter.”
“Shh. Don’t talk nonsense. That’s the viscount of St. Piaf. Before we find out what’s going on, don’ t label people randomly lest we get into trouble.”
When everyone heard this, the atmosphere in the hall of the Royal Palace became abnormally silent.
Old Master Gray had a very deep impression of Shirley as well. He knew that Carter and Shirley had almost gotten married a few years ago, but after that, Shirley left the family and left St. Piaf for some reason.
The Old Master had not expected Shirley to look like this when he saw her again.
“Old Master Gray, I believe you’re not unfamiliar with me, right?” Shirley looked into the Old Master’s eyes fearlessly. “If you still remember me, I think you’ll believe what I have to say, isn’t right?”
Old Master Gray pressed his lips together and said,“
Go on.”
Shirley looked at everyone around her when she heard that. In the end, her eyes landed on Carter, whose face was turning as gray as ash.
“Miss Eveline Montgomery was telling the truth. This whole time, Carter only wants to use her identity and background to reach his goals. He doesn’t have any romantic feelings toward Eveline.”
Shirley said and lifted her eyebrows.
“Carter, have you forgotten? You told me that I’m the person you love. You told me that you’re only marrying Eveline to get the right to rule. You also said that once you have gotten the right to rule, you’ll have clear boundaries with Eveline, and you’ll make me your woman and make up for the regretful times when we could not be together.
Isn’t that right?”
Carter was speechless as he looked at Shirley who had a smile that reached her eyes.
She was doing this on purpose.
She had deliberately come here to say that and deliberately ruined his plan.
The fire in Carter’s heart further intensified. His fingers also clenched tighter.
However, he could not express his anger.
He was silent because he admitted that he had said those things before.
Looking at Shirley’s firm gaze, Carter knew that she was serious and that she came prepared.
When Old Master Gray saw that Carter had no retort, a look of disappointment flashed across his eyes.
Carter’s silence already explained it all.
The smile on Shirley’s face widened. “Carter, I’ ll take your silence as admission.”
She smiled and said.
“Don’t you think that this is strange? Who is Carter Gray? You were the top student of St. Piaf Academy. You’re a master in the field of hypnosis and an experienced professor. You’ve hypnotized Eveline with your unique hypnosis and controlled her thoughts, but why is she exposing your real self right now?”
Carter was indeed curious when he heard that. He was suspicious as well.
A moment earlier, Niamh had been listening to him, but in the next second, not only did Niamh go against his wishes, she even exposed his entire plan in front of everyone.
Carter could not keep his cool anymore. He wanted to know why. However, before he could ask, he got Shirley’s answer in the next second.
“Because before today, the hypnosis you put on Eveline was already been broken.”
“Impossible,” Carter said in denial, and at the same time, this also confirmed that he had hypnotized Niamh.
However, Shirley laughed sarcastically. “ It’s not impossible. I was the one who broke it.”
“… What did you say?”
Astonished, Carter looked at Shirley who had just said that.
How was that possible?
That could never have happened.
Carter kept on denying this in his heart, but Shirley’s firm gaze told him that this was true.
After Shirley and Carter looked at each other for a while, Shirley averted her gaze coldly and spoke earnestly and unflinchingly to the Old Master.
“Old Master Gray, I am telling the truth. If you don’t believe me, you can find someone to verify this. With your ability, I believe that nothing will escape from your eyes as long as you want to know something.”
After saying that, Shirley glanced at Carter and mocked him mercilessly.
“I can confidently tell everyone here that Carter Gray has no right to fight for the monarch’s throne in St. Piaf because he’s not worthy.”
“…” Carter could no longer describe how he was feeling right now. The tempest that was his anger was on the verge of exploding.
However, the person in front of him was Shirley. It was Shirley.
In the past, he had been this woman’s priority, and she would speak carefully in his presence. At the present, she desperately wanted to see him fall from grace and even wanted him to die.
Carter was speechless as he merely stared at Shirley.
At this moment, Jim’s mother started to mock Carter. “Dad, did you hear that? Even Shirley is testifying against Carter’s character. Do you want someone like this to rule over St. Piaf in the future?”
“Grandpa, even if I wanted to fight for the right to rule as well, I would never agree with Carter’s means. If I wanted to fight for it, I would use the right and proper means, not despicable means like this.”
Jim lifted his cold and arrogant eyes and then asked Niamh politely.
“Miss Eveline Montgomery, since this is all fake, then I guess you’re not really pregnant too, is that right?”
Niamh curled her lips into a soft smile. “Of course, aside from my husband, Kendrick Waldburg,
I’ve never been intimate with another man in my life.”
Niamh stated the truth and shifted her gaze to look at the dejected Carter.
“Carter has been using me from the start to achieve two of his goals. The first goal is to help him fight for the right to rule, and the other is to seek revenge against my husband.”
“Revenge?”
Everyone felt suspicious and curious when that word landed in their ears.
Many of those present in the room had heard about Kendrick. The Old Master, too, knew about him.
However, why did Carter want to seek revenge against Kendrick? None of them knew the reason behind this.
Carter knew, however, and so did Shirley.
It was for that child who was not fated to be born.
At this moment, the word “dark” was not enough to describe the Old Master’s expression.
When he was about to reproach and question Carter, he heard Carter chuckling coldly and lowly. Everyone began to shift their attention on Carter when they heard him chuckling.
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.