Chapter 984 I Learned to Lie from You

Chapter 984: Chapter 984: I Learned to Lie from You

Chapter 984 -984: I Learned to Lie from You

At around six o’clock in the evening, Xaviera Evans was still wearing her pajamas, lazily leaning on the couch playing video games. The family dinner would officially start at seven, with guests arriving and taking their seats. It would only begin once everyone was present.

However, Xaviera was playing her game at her leisure, showing no intention of getting ready to leave. A second later, Nidya Hughes called her.

Nidya Hughes was very impatient, and her tone full of anger, “What time is it already? Where are you?”

Xaviera skillfully worked the screen with her fingers, nonchalantly replying: “Oh, I suddenly don’t want to go anymore.”

This remark almost caused Nidya Hughes to spit blood in anger, her teeth clenched as she yelled: “Xaviera! You’re being absurd! With so many elders waiting for you, who are you to decide not to show up?”

At this moment inside the Hughes Villa, everyone heard Nidya’s loud voice and looked over. Madam Hughes’s face darkened as she asked: “Nidya, did Xaviera say she’s not coming? This girl really has no manners!”

“Auntie, didn’t she already agree? Why is she suddenly not coming?” Zora Hughes asked.

As Xaviera heard voices on the other side, she chuckled: “I just simply don’t feel like going. I remember Mrs. Hughes once said in public that Anna Campbell is your daughter, and I have nothing to do with you. So why should I attend the Hughes family dinner? Moreover, you guys don’t actually want me there.”

“I have a good relationship with the Russell family, so it’s best to keep a certain distance from the Hughes family. If I attend the dinner, it might lead to misunderstandings with my grandmother and uncle. So, I’m not coming. Have fun!”

At this moment, Nidya Hughes was rigid all over, her face contorted like a wild beast, yelling: “Xaviera!”

Feeling the gaze of the guests, Nidya Hughes quickly contained her anger and lowered her voice: “Don’t forget, Zora is your good sister, who endured so much criticism for you. Now that Zora has invited you to the family dinner, but you are unwilling to come? Even if not for my sake, you must come for Zora’s!”

Xaviera pondered and hummed: “That makes sense.”

However, her tone became innocent and helpless the next second: “But I really can’t help it! Today is the Russell family’s dinner too, and as their precious daughter, I must visit my grandmother! She dotes on me so much, and if I don’t visit her, it would be unfilial. I believe everyone will understand.”

Nidya Hughes furiously scolded: “What nonsense are you talking about? The Russell family isn’t hosting any dinner!”

“If you can say Zora endured criticism for me, why can’t I say the Russell family is hosting a dinner? I learned my lying skills from you, after all!”

Nidya Hughes’s throat choked up, as Xaviera already knew that everything was a trap set up by the Hughes family, designed to force her back home using public opinion. She knew it clearly, but others did not.

Now, to avoid attending the dinner, Xaviera fabricated the lie about the Russell family hosting a dinner instead. As long as Letitia Russell confirmed her story, people would naturally have no doubts.

Both sides were lying, but neither could refute the other.

“Mrs. Hughes, don’t think you can bully me just because you think I can’t expose your lies. I have the Russell family behind me, so what can you do to me?”

“Aren’t you aware of the scores between the Hughes and Russell families, Mrs. Hughes? The two families have not interacted for decades. If I choose the Hughes family over my grandmother when she invites me home, that would be truly unfilial! Any sane person would choose their grandmother over attending a dinner party hosted by a mistress who took the main wife’s position.”

Nidya Hughes’s face turned from green to white in anger, and she gnashed her teeth: “Xaviera, don’t go too far!”

“How am I going too far? I just don’t want to attend a family dinner, that’s all. If there’s nothing else, I will hang up now.” Xaviera ended the call, leaving the person on the other side in panic.

“Wait a minute!”

After a few seconds, an elderly and gentle voice came through the phone: “Xaviera, it’s your grandfather.”

Xaviera leaned back on the couch, closed the game interface, switched to speakerphone, and threw her phone onto the coffee table. Her tone was indifferent and distant: “Speak up if you have something to say, I’m very busy.”

Cory Hughes was taken aback, seemingly forcing down his anger. His tone was still gentle when he spoke again: “Xaviera, I know you have no affection for the Hughes family, but you’re very close to Nina, who is, after all, your foster mother. She left some designs and photos at the Hughes family; don’t you want to retrieve them?”