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Chapter 2

Author: Echo
Her diamond ring sliced Matthew's cheek open, but he didn't dare show a hint of anger.

He just locked his venomous eyes on me, desperately trying to keep pinning it on me.

"That's not all! When this bitch stripped naked for me last night, I saw it clearly."

"She has a red rose tattooed on her inner thigh."

"Just strip her and check, and you'll know I'm telling the truth!"

His absolute certainty made Caroline doubt again.

I was seething with rage.

I suddenly remembered a waiter stumbling into my room while I was changing earlier.

Looking back, that had to be Matthew's spy.

He had chosen me as his scapegoat from the very beginning.

Caroline's icy gaze shifted back to me. "Strip, then. Let us check, and we'll know for sure."

Naturally, I wasn't going to take that kind of humiliation.

Matthew pulled his gun and pressed it right against my forehead.

"If it wasn't you, just strip and prove it! Why stall? I think you're just guilty!"

I didn't back down.

"I won't do it! Just because a piece of trash like you makes up a lie, I have to humiliate myself to prove my innocence? By that logic, I could announce you're impotent!"

"Why don't you drop your pants in front of everyone and prove me wrong?"

Matthew was so furious he couldn't speak, but Caroline's frown deepened.

She told me, "Matthew wouldn't just frame someone for no reason. Since you say this isn't yours, strip and prove it."

"Or, step inside and have a chat with the snake."

"I believe facing a Black Mamba's fangs makes any liar honest."

Caroline was pushing me into a corner.

Public humiliation or the snake pit.

The Cassano guards were already closing in. If I tried to run, they’d swarm me, shove me into the tank, and let me die right there.

Taking a deep breath, I made my move.

I reached into my clutch and pulled out my credentials.

My Ph.D. diploma from Yale.

I also had my Visconti Senior Advisor badge, but I kept it hidden. I wasn't about to mix family business with a personal grudge.

Holding up the diploma, I looked at Caroline.

"Miss Caroline, I went to Yale. Anyone with a brain knows how hard it is to survive there."

"I spent six years working my ass off to get a Ph.D. from an Ivy League school, making an eight-figure salary."

"Do you seriously think I'd serve tea in your house for pocket change, just to get harassed by a street punk?"

I threw that last part in on purpose to humiliate Matthew.

And I wanted Caroline to know that her precious mobster husband was a joke to me.

Only a spoiled, brain-dead mafia princess would buy a lowlife's lies.

Sure enough, Caroline’s eyes softened when she saw the diploma.

Stupid as she was, she knew what a Yale Ph.D. meant.

Her sharp gaze shifted back to Matthew, and just as she was about to press him, a woman in a maid's uniform rushed out, slapped me across the face, and shrieked.

"Veronica, are you crazy?! Forging documents to con a mafia princess?"

"Aren't you afraid of dragging our whole family to hell when you get busted?!"
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