Chapter 5

I froze all the bank cards in Damien's name.

Without money to keep Nina, he angrily sent me a voice message.

"Elara Hartley, unfreeze those cards right now!"

That night, they were taken away by police for dining and dashing.

The incident even made headlines on the city's entertainment news.

After Damien was released from the detention center, he stormed into my CEO office looking furious.

I sat in the executive chair, legs crossed, smiling smugly.

"Your grandfather handed over all your assets for me to manage. Isn't that what you agreed to first?"

Damien was momentarily speechless.

But Nina put her hands on her hips and shouted at me angrily.

"Why is the old man so good to you! No matter what, you're not a Sinclair. You're always an outsider!"

I lifted my eyelids and glanced at her belly with a smile.

"Outsider? I'm Damien's wife-to-be. His money isn't for me to manage, should it go to you? What are you?"

Damien seemed intimidated by my presence, his face livid, apparently guilty, not daring to say another word.

I now controlled the finances. Next was teaching this shameless pair a lesson.

But Nina was dismissive, stroking her slightly protruding belly with a charming smile.

"After all, this is the Sinclair family's money. You're still not a Sinclair!"

"I'll tell you the truth. I have a Sinclair in my belly —"

Damien quickly covered her mouth, preventing the truth from being revealed.

I smiled.

I'd known about Nina's pregnancy for a long time.

After all this talk, I was waiting for her to say this.

"What did you say? Are you carrying Damien's child?"

I looked at Damien with confusion, pretending to be heartbroken.

"Is what she's saying true? I thought you two just had no boundaries, but you've been sleeping together behind my back, and now there's even a child!"

"I'm going to tell Dad. I'm not getting married!"

I turned resolutely to leave, scaring Damien into quickly abandoning Nina to coax me.

I knew clearly in my heart that he agreed to marry me only because his grandfather favored me.

A flash of panic crossed Damien's eyes. He quickly denied it.

"Of course not!"

I asked with a serious face, repeatedly:

"Damien, don't lie to me. That's really not your child?"

Damien didn't hesitate for a second, patting his chest to assure me:

"The child she's carrying is definitely not mine!"

I couldn't help but smile and nodded.

"I believe you, but I require a DNA paternity test."

Three days later, Damien and I held a grand wedding, inviting celebrities from both business and political circles.

Halfway through the wedding, I took an envelope from a staff member.

Damien looked at me helplessly.

"Elara, this is all a misunderstanding."

"If that child isn't mine, will you kneel and apologize to Nina?"

Damien was clearly doing this on purpose.

Making me lose face on our wedding day was his way of punishing me.

Damien snatched the report from my hands and showed it to everyone.

Seeing "no blood relation" on it, the whole venue erupted in harsh condemnation.

"I knew Nina was innocent!"

"Hurry up and kneel to apologize! Don't waste everyone's time!"

"Why isn't Elara Hartley reacting? Did she already know something?"

Nina also shed tears, glaring at me resentfully, as if I had deliberately bullied her.

"Hmph! Now the truth is out. Let's see how you try to argue your way out!"

Seeing me about to refute, Damien suddenly gripped my wrist, leaned close to my ear, his voice extremely low.

"Elara Hartley, admit defeat."

"Even if you cry and beg me now, you must kneel and apologize to Nina!"

I laughed dismissively, lifted my skirt, and gracefully took the stage.

"Don't rush!"

"I know you bribed the staff to give me a fake report."

"But I have a medical report here, about you. Want to see it?"

Ignoring the shock on everyone's faces below, I just quietly glanced at Damien.

Then calmly pulled out that medical report.

Everyone seemed to hold their breath, all eyes gathering here.

After a moment of silence, I heard Damien's roar.

"Impossible! This must be a mistake!"

I smiled.

"You have oligospermia. Has no one told you?"

As soon as the words fell, Damien's face instantly turned deathly pale.