Mrs. Royce jabbed her finger at me, one hand on her hip, "Olivia, you've always acted so well-behaved! Who knew this was your true self? Tara only wanted to help us and you drag her down with your baseless accusations! Thomas gave you an out, are you really not going to take it?"
"I'm telling you, Tara has already told me, if Thomas is willing, she doesn't even need a bride price!" She smugly looked me over, "Be a good woman and return the money so we can end this. Let Thomas focus on marrying Tara. College girls these days, worse than high schoolers when it comes to understanding decency!"
"Oh?" I smirked, calm and unshaken, "Then allow me to congratulate you both in advance."
Their attempts to humiliate me didn't faze me. I didn't feel any loss at all about the broken engagement.
I said, "I'll say it again, I only received 18,800 dollars, which has already been returned. And I stand by my accusation against Tara. I have three reasons, first, she has the motive, she wants to marry Thomas and break off our engagement."
"Second, as a hotel employee, she likely used her position to obtain and manipulate the video footage."
"Third, when my mom's phone went missing, Tara was the one who returned it. At that time, I had barely met her and my mom didn't even know her. How did she manage to locate my mom so precisely? It's hard not to question her intentions."
