When I Flash-Married a Billionaire, My Ex Went on a Hunger Strike novel Chapter 45

Ruby’s face froze, completely stunned. "You…"

She had HIV and she still had the nerve to prostitute herself? Wasn’t she afraid of the consequences?

Theodore’s face turned crimson. "Adora! What nonsense are you spouting? Have you no sense of decency, no dignity as a proper young lady?"

Adora gave him a cold glance. "Wasn’t it your precious youngest daughter who asked the question first?"

Why was she being scolded again?

Ruby didn’t respond, and Adora smiled faintly, taking the initiative. "It was an old client. My ex-boyfriend, actually. Soon to be my brother-in-law."

The expressions on everyone's faces shifted dramatically.

Adora let out a theatrical sigh. "Ah… at least Eugene still has a conscience. He knows how hard it is for me in this house, and he’s been incredibly generous."

"You…you’re lying! Eugene’s not that kind of person! He loves me now! He’d never mess around with you!

“You have that filthy disease! He wouldn’t even come near you!"

Ruby thought she still had the upper hand, but Adora’s words shattered her composure in an instant.

She lost all sense of reason, shrieking as she lunged at Adora.

Peter barely managed to stop her in time.

"Ruby, calm down! She’s doing it on purpose. She’s baiting you!" Peter warned, seeing right through Adora’s strategy.

Lilian’s face darkened.

She looked hard at her eldest daughter, then spoke sharply. "Adora, you got that money from selling the jewelry, didn’t you? This has nothing to do with Eugene."

Adora smiled, calm as ever. "No. I used the jewelry money to place a down payment on a car. The cash here really did come from Eugene."

"A car? What kind of car costs that much?" Lilian’s voice shot up.

"A Maserati," Adora said casually.

"I told the dealership to give me the most expensive one they had. It should be here next week."

The room went silent.

Everyone in the Matthews family was left speechless, furious, and unable to respond.

Wearing gloves, Peter bent down, picked them up, and handed them to Ruby.

“I don’t want it! It’s filthy!” Ruby flinched back in disgust.

“Then you’re not fixing the necklace?”

“I’m not!” Ruby snapped.

She didn’t even want Eugene anymore—why would she care about a necklace he gave her?

The more she thought about it, the angrier and more bitter she became.

Tears spilled down her cheeks again as she clung to her mother’s arm, sobbing. “Mom… do you think Eugene’s fallen out of love with me? What if he gets back together with Adora?”

Lilian wasn’t sure how much of what Adora said was true, but at this point, she could only try to console her younger daughter.

“Of course not. We can tell Eugene cares about you. Don’t let your sister’s words get to you.”

But Ruby’s eyes were blank, her tears falling silently as she murmured, “If Adora hadn’t come back… I know he would’ve truly loved me. But now she has returned…”

Inside the room, Adora flipped a page of her book, lips curling into a quiet, satisfied smile.