She took a taxi to the company's location, only to find it was empty.
When she returned home, utterly defeated, the whole family had already heard about what happened.
"I told you Ansley wasn't trustworthy! Now look what happened! All the money is gone. She's nothing but a con artist!"
"How could this be? She said she'd help me make money!"
"What! Help you make money? She was after your money the whole time."
Marcus sneered from the side.
His words seemed to snap her out of it.
"What good does it do to say that now?
"This is all your fault! When I asked you if doing business with Ansley was a good idea, you said it was!"
Tiara turned her gaze toward me.
She was trying to shift the blame onto me.
"Tiara, I never encouraged you to do business with that woman. All I said was, 'It's up to you!' I thought you were an adult who could make your own decisions. Anyway, wasn't it because you didn't know how to judge people? This has nothing to do with me.
"Besides, weren't you the one who said you were good friends? Who could've guessed it?" I said innocently.
2.2 Conflict Over the Scam
