No Divorce? The Billionaire's Love Chase! novel Chapter 469

Claudia stood in the hallway, watching as a crowd escorted the Quinn family's patriarch hurriedly upstairs. He rushed past Claudia and knelt beside Shelly. “Hang in there. I’m taking you to the hospital right now.”

Shelly grabbed her husband’s hand, stopping him. “Honey, a little injury to me is nothing,” she said, her voice trembling with injustice. “But I think our son might have been frightened. I feel… a little unwell.”

The patriarch insisted on taking her to the hospital, but Shelly stubbornly refused.

“Honey,” she said tearfully, “I can’t believe I could be bullied like this in my own home. I was just kindly offering to help Dr. Watkins change her dress, and she… she heartlessly pushed me, trying to make me miscarry.”

Claudia couldn't stand it anymore. “Mrs. Quinn, are you a mind reader? How could you possibly know what I was thinking?”

Shelly’s expression didn’t change. “Dr. Watkins, there are security cameras in the hallway. If I’m framing you, I will apologize to you in front of everyone.”

Before the words were even out of her mouth, Celia jumped in. “Dr. Watkins, we all saw you push Mrs. Quinn! Don't even try to deny it!”

The crowd erupted in accusations, demanding to see the footage. The patriarch immediately ordered someone to retrieve it. Then, his gaze fell on Claudia, his tone a stark warning. “Dr. Watkins, if that video proves you deliberately pushed my wife to harm her baby, I won’t let you off the hook, even if you are Mr. Gideon’s guest!”

The patriarch was seething, Shelly was playing the perfect victim, and Celia and Ann’s relatives were relentlessly stirring the pot. The onlookers’ murmurs turned into a full-blown assault on Claudia's character. They called her vicious for attacking a pregnant woman and sneered that a cast-off trophy wife had no business at an event like this. Rumors flew that she was still chasing her ex-husband, desperate to get back into the Ferguson family, while others claimed she only had her job at Harvest Hospital because she’d slept her way into Gideon's bed. They rehashed the old story of how she’d come between York and his first love, Ann, ultimately sending Ann to prison while getting herself kicked out of the Ferguson family as karmic justice.

There was no end to the slander. Claudia listened to the increasingly vicious and vile accusations with a blank face. She ignored them, said nothing, and gave them no reaction. Her silence was her only defense.

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