Rich Radiant and Over Him (Alicia and Vincent) novel Chapter 511

"My brother was born to be the heir of the Edwards family, my sister is the blade meant to protect him, and I was born to be a pawn for a strategic marriage." Pamela was under no illusions about her place or her value.

She wouldn't fight her family over an arranged marriage like some heiresses, but she also wouldn't passively accept her fate like most. She wanted to take control of her own destiny.

That was why she was willing to work with Easton.

After all, marriage was always a gamble.

"Clara may be the blade your father forged for himself… but you have to be careful. Sometimes a blade can cut the one who wields it," Easton said quietly, standing by the window.

Pamela looked at him. "You see it too, don't you? My sister is not a simple woman…"

Easton nodded.

Clara put on a warm front, but the ambition in her eyes was impossible to hide. A woman whose ambition was so nakedly on display would stop at nothing to achieve her goals. And a woman with such capability and ambition would never be content to merely be a tool in someone else's hand.

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Natalia's Residence.

News that Alicia and Clayton were living together had already spread, keeping the internal politics at White Corporation unusually quiet for the past few days. Everyone assumed they would get engaged and marry after the official mourning period for the old patriarch ended.

After all, Clayton had always lived an almost monastic life, famously uninterested in women. The fact that he was living under the same roof as Alicia was a clear sign that he had finally relented.

"Don't worry, it's all been arranged. Tomorrow, I will see her reputation utterly ruined," Jade said, her eyes narrowing.

She had already sent someone to steal the original drafts of Alicia's designs. Once all the evidence was in her hands… at the competition, she would make sure Alicia could never recover, driving her out of the world of architectural design for good.

"Then we'll be eagerly waiting. We'll be there at the competition to watch the show," Natalia said, taking a sip of tea.

Tomorrow morning, the scandal about Clayton would erupt, undoubtedly affecting Alicia's state of mind. That afternoon, during the final stage of the design competition, if Alicia was then exposed for plagiarism and forced to withdraw, she would never be able to establish her authority within White Corporation.

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