Chapter 43
Lucas was utterly humiliated by the recording Avery played, but he still refused to admit defeat.
"These recordings are fake!" He stood up, flushed with anger, and pointed accusingly at Avery. "The background noise is so loud—there’s no proof that voice is mine. My fiancée is perfect, a true lady from a prominent family. Why would I waste my time on someone like you?"
Avery scoffed. "Oh, I’ve got video too. Want me to play that for everyone?"
Lucas’s face went pale. "Y-You know falsifying recordings and videos is illegal, right?" He thought, The bar was pretty dim that night, and since Avery recorded everything secretly, maybe... it didn’t clearly capture my face? As long as my face isn’t visible, or if it’s blurry, I may still have a way out. Or maybe I should figure out how to destroy her phone right now.
Avery taunted him, "I’ll connect my phone to the big screen right now and let everyone see what you really look like." She made a show of standing up, ready to head toward the stage. In reality, she only had the audio recording—there was no video at all.
But Lucas fell for it. He turned as white as a sheet, cold sweat forming on his forehead.
"Avery, this is Zoe’s graduation party. Do you really want to ruin it like this—" Before he could finish, a group of uniformed hotel security guards suddenly walked in.
With polite smiles, they asked, "Is Mr. Harper and Miss Harper here?"
Lucas felt a surge of hope. "That’s me. What’s going on?" At this point, he didn’t care who they were as long as they could stop Avery from exposing him further.
The head of security stepped forward and respectfully said, "Mr. Harper, Miss Harper, our headquarters at V Group issued an internal notice a few days ago, banning any Harper family members from entering any of our properties. Due to the large number of guests tonight, we didn’t realize that members of the Harper family entered the hotel, which violates our company’s policy. That oversight is on us."
"So we must now formally request that you and Miss Harper leave the premises immediately and refrain from ever entering this hotel again."