"Who didn’t know she liked Mr. Argent? She must have shamelessly gone after Mr. Argent."

"But luckily, Ms. Whitaker was here; otherwise, she really would’ve taken advantage of it."

Wallace’s face darkened. “Alarieka, what are you wearing? Get out; don’t embarrass yourself here.”

Alarieka wanted to scare Clarissa, so she specially grabbed a white, wide skirt from deep inside the closet. It was really wrinkled, and she had just messed up her hair on purpose. Now she looked totally messy from head to toe, standing in front of a bunch of well-dressed, classy people. The difference was like night and day.

Roschelle pressed her lips together, “Sir Argent, don’t say that. Lately, Alarieka has had to work at a street stall after school to make money. It’s really tough for her. As for clothes, there’s no need to be so picky.”

She seemed to care a lot about Alarieka; even her eyes looked worried.

A surprised voice suddenly sounded behind Roschelle.

“Set up a street stall? Alarieka went to set up a street stall?”

“She got this poor after she was kicked out by the Argent family?”

“Exactly, but how could you say she was kicked out? At most, she just went back to where she started. She was born to be a street vendor. The Argent family took her in for a few years, and she really thought she was one of them?” The speaker gave a cold laugh.

“So, she just couldn’t figure out her own place, did all these stupid things, and was still thinking about seducing Mr. Argent.”

“It really was a shame. Ms. Whitaker took such good care of her and thought about her, but she wasn’t even grateful. She even dared to seduce Ms. Whitaker’s fiancé.”

“Yeah, Ms. Whitaker doesn’t need to worry about Alarieka anymore; she’d better just stay away from her.”

Alarieka slowly clenched her fists.

Wallace and everyone from the Argent family who was there didn’t stop those people from talking, so it showed that this was also what the Argent family really thought.

It was exactly because the Argent family didn’t stop them that more and more people started talking, and the voices got louder and louder, not hiding it at all.

Alarieka looked up at Kieran.

Kieran looked calm and indifferent and didn’t react at all.

No sound and no objection meant agreement.

His hand was on Roschelle’s shoulder, kind of a protective gesture.

Roschelle, in his arms, lowered her eyes and acted all gentle and caring.

Behind Alarieka, Clarissa ran out of the lounge, crying, and threw herself into Wallace’s arms.

“Grandpa! Alarieka bullied me!”

As soon as Clarissa spoke, the way people around looked at Alarieka got even weirder.

“This Alarieka still dared to mess with the real Ms. Argent, really had a death wish, totally reckless.”

“Yeah, Ms. Argent is someone both you and I have to show respect to. Alarieka was just a driver’s daughter, but she still dared to bully her. Really had no brains.”

Clarissa held Wallace’s arm and cried her heart out.

“Alarieka bullied me! She pretended to be a ghost to scare me, Grandpa! I was scared to death! Grandpa, you have to help me bully her back!”

Wallace looked up in an instant, his old, cloudy eyes full of pressure landing on Alarieka’s face.

He snorted, “Alarieka, look what you did!”

Alarieka clenched her fists, and she looked at Clarissa with a calm face.

“Clarissa, are you sure you still want to throw dirt at me?”

Clarissa just got scared, and when she heard Alarieka’s voice, her body flinched instinctively.

After that, she looked up and glanced at where Alarieka was.

In front of Clarissa, Alarieka put her hand in her pocket and slowly took out the recorder.

Clarissa’s face changed dramatically: “No–”

Alarieka said, “You were too late.”

Chapter 160

The moment she finished speaking, Alarieka pressed the recorder’s switch, and her conversation with Clarissa started playing from the recorder.

Clarissa’s face changed, and she reached out to Alarieka: “No!”

In the recorder, it clearly recorded Clarissa admitting that she let the girl frame the stall.

Nobody was stupid, and in just a few moments, everyone understood why Alarieka came here.

Alarieka and her classmates had a barbecue stand, and Clarissa told someone to pretend to have a stomachache to smear their stand for having hygiene problems. So that’s why Alarieka showed up here, acting spooky to scare Clarissa and make her tell the truth.

Alarieka said loudly, “Clarissa did something wrong; she slandered my stall and said there was something wrong with it. Should I go find her? Should I make her clear my name?”

Clarissa was so mad she kept taking deep breaths but couldn’t say a word.

Alarieka put away the recorder and looked at Wallace and Kieran with a slight smile.