Shattered Rose He Held On Tight novel Chapter 123

Chapter 123 Hit Where It Hurts

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She wasn’t standing up for Jasper and Lydia, but she simply couldn’t stand how Sterling spoiled Claudia.

Her good nephew didn’t take the bait.

He stayed calm and said, “You got to have a temper to keep you from being bullied. Don’t you think so, Hailey?”

His dark and cold eyes startled Hailey.

Many old memories suddenly flashed through her mind. Was he hinting at something?

Feeling annoyed, Hailey scoffed and didn’t dare to act like an elder anymore. She stomped away in a huff.

Watching Hailey, Donovan’s most spoiled one, fail in front of Claudia, everyone now understood what was going on.

Claudia walked on with Sterling holding her hand. As they walked past Lydia, she tilted her head and whispered, “Why do you think people become stronger when they desire nothing?”

Lydia looked up quickly, but Claudia was already walking away with a smile on her face.

That bright red invitation card was smashed under her foot, dirty and ruined.

Previously, Claudia had no proof and her suspicions about Lydia and Grandma were just her own guesses. But at the cemetery, Lydia had exposed herself. Did she think Claudia would let her go?

She even felt grateful for Lydia’s relentless pressure over the years. She had lost her parents, brothers, a lover, even dreams. She lost them one by one and built walls around herself each time.

She no longer wished for family love, no longer cared about Jasper’s guilt towards Preston and Lydia. She was no longer weighed down by the death that she had been forced to carry for over a decade. What could they possibly use to get her to stop fighting back?

A performance tour, huh?

She would remember that.

Thanks to Lydia for delivering the message herself.

She hoped that they would like her gift too.

Chapter 123 Hit Where It Hurts

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In the car, Sterling glanced at her bare feet after she took off her heels. “Do you want to get another checkup?”

Claudia shook her head. “No. The doctor back then was already the best. It doesn’t affect my daily life and I still can do intense exercise sometimes. I just can’t be on stage anymore.”

Top dancers need extreme control over their bodies, just like athletes, where a split second could make a huge difference.

No matter how talented you are, if your body can’t keep up, you’ll never make it to the top.

In that industry, she would always be suppressed by Lydia.

That was one reason she had given up dancing and switched to painting back then.

When Sterling looked into Claudia’s past, he had found out about this. Her parents favored Lydia, but they wouldn’t be so careless with their own daughter’s future.

They weren’t short on money. The doctor back then was indeed the best and he did everything he could.

Checking again now would probably give the same result.

But thinking of that woman strutting and showing off in front of Claudia made Sterling frown hard.

“Let’s have someone break her legs,” he said.

If Claudia couldn’t dance anymore, Lydia should never set foot on stage again either.

Wasn’t the Lancasters always bragging about their daughter being a dancer? What would their faces look like when they saw their daughter’s legs ruined? Would they feel as sad as when Claudia got injured back then?

Claudia shook her head.

“Not for now.”

“You have another plan?” he asked.

“Yes. If she retired because of an injury, then in the public’s mind she’d always be that innocent existence lost by accident. But I want to rip off her disguise, crush her pride, and make her unworthy of even sympathy.”

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