Kicked Out of the Family Register

At that moment, the socialites who had just been deceived by Hazel Lewis and Jade Cole all realized they had been fooled.

They glared at Hazel Lewis angrily and demanded, "Hazel Lewis, why did you lie to us?"

"Exactly. Where's that woman from just now? I remember her name was something Cole, right?"

"Yeah, where did that woman go?"

Faced with the questioning from several socialites, Hazel Lewis's face turned paler and paler.

She took a deep breath, clenched her fists, barely pulled herself together, and stiffly asked Zane Cole, "Mr. Cole, is there some kind of mistake? Wasn't it Jade Cole who asked you to come?"

At this point, all her hope rested on Zane Cole having mistaken the person and having nothing to do with Claire Bennett.

But what had happened with the jade bracelet just now gave her a faintly bad feeling.

Hazel Lewis waited anxiously for Zane Cole's answer.

After hearing the name Jade Cole, Zane Cole frowned tightly, then showed a look of disgust.

He said coldly, "The person you're talking about was removed from the family register by me for doing things that harmed the Cole family. If anyone runs into her again in the future, anything she does has nothing to do with the Cole family!"

As soon as those words were spoken, everyone began looking at one another.

"This mix-up is kind of shocking. I thought at worst it was just a case of mistaken identity, but who would've thought that member of the Cole family had actually been struck from the family?"

"Good thing Mr. Cole came, otherwise we probably all would've been fooled."

"Come to think of it, wasn't Hazel Lewis the one who brought her here and kept promoting her as a member of the Cole family? Hazel Lewis being close sisters with someone who was kicked out of the family register is something worth thinking about."

...

The whispering kept drifting into her ears, and Hazel Lewis stood there frozen.

She never in a million years expected Jade Cole's situation to be like this. She had already been kicked out of the family register?

Then those things Jade Cole had promised her...

Only now did Hazel Lewis realize that she too had been played by Jade Cole!

It was true that she had been a member of the Cole family, but she had absolutely no ability to treat illness. And Zane Cole hadn't been invited by Jade Cole at all, but by Claire Bennett!

Thinking about how she had utterly humiliated herself in front of everyone just now, Hazel Lewis felt as though all the blood in her body had frozen solid.

Her hand at her side dug hard into her palm, and there was no hiding the twisted look on her face.

As Hazel Lewis's father, Daniel Lewis naturally lost face too when she made such a fool of herself, especially since he had also said a few arrogant things just now.

But the situation in front of them had to be smoothed over somehow.

No matter how humiliating it was, they had to grit their teeth and swallow it.

Daniel Lewis forced a shameless smile and, in the tone of an elder, scolded Hazel Lewis, saying, "Hazel! Did that Jade Cole deceive you? You're still too inexperienced to see whether people are good or bad. You need to be more careful in the future. You almost dragged Mr. Sterling down with you!"

Hazel Lewis could only nod awkwardly and respond in a small voice.

Old Mr. Sterling's expression darkened. He hadn't expected such a huge joke to be made of this.

Then didn't that mean what he had said just now about seeing Hazel Lewis's doctor and not seeing Claire Bennett's doctor was also making a fool of himself?

Thinking of that, his face grew long with displeasure. He was obviously unhappy, but there was nothing he could pursue, so he could only swallow a bellyful of anger for nothing.

How would Daniel Lewis and Hazel Lewis dare keep drawing attention to themselves? The two of them slunk off to the side, trying to make themselves less noticeable.