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    Hadley gave a firm nod and turned sharply to Remy. “Look carefully. Is this the woman who ordered you to harm me?”

    Remy shifted uneasily, darting nces at Linda. He swallowed and nodded. “Yes, it’s her!”

    “Ha-ha.” Hadley let out a dry, mirthlessugh, lifting her gaze toward Eric, a strange glint dancing in her eyes. “Did you hear that?”

    “I did.” Eric nodded, a deep furrow forming between his brows. “In that case, you…”

    “Wait a minute!” Linda suddenly cut in, her eyes darting between them. “Eric, what are you talking about? Will someone please exin this to me?”

    “Why are you still pretending? The witness just pointed you out!” Hadley snapped her head around, eyes zing as she leveled a piercing re at Linda.

    Hadley spoke slowly and with chilling precision. “Drop the act, Linda. Eric already knows the truth. You were the one who ordered Remy to steal Gnt’s surveince footage and leak it online. You wanted to ruin me, didn’t you?”

    Linda looked utterly bewildered. “What surveince footage?” A sudden realization struck her. “You mean that scandal of yours the other day?”

    “Ah, so you do remember.” Hadley’s lips curled into a mocking smirk. “Linda, what a brilliant setup! You have been hell-bent on destroying me from the start!”

    Her gaze flickered to Linda’s legs, her eyes narrowing with a fierce glint. “What’s the matter? Now that you are paralyzed and out of the entertainment industry, you don’t want me to stay either?”

    “That’s absurd!” Linda’s eyes red with indignation. “I have no idea what you are talking about!”

    “Still denying it?” Hadley shrugged, her toneced with derision. “Too bad for you. Remy can testify that it was you!”

    “I didn’t do it!”

    At this point, everything finally clicked for Linda.

    She shot Hadley a seething re. “You barge into my home in the middle of the night, stir up chaos, and try to pin this on me? How absurd!”

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    Refusing to waste more words on Hadley, she turned to Eric instead. “Eric, I swear I didn’t do it! I don’t even know this man! Today is the first time I have everid eyes on him!”

    Eric’s gaze darkened, his eyes deep and unreadable as silence stretched between them.

    Both women were unrelenting. Who was telling the truth?

    “Do you not believe me, Eric?”

    Linda’s heart sank, panic creeping in as she turned to Remy. “Who are you, really? Why are you trying to frame me?”

    “Exactly,” Hadley said, her tone biting. “He’s just an ordinary guy. What reason would he have to target you? This isn’t a setup, Linda. This is the truth, in and simple.”

    “You…” Linda opened her mouth, but no words came.

    Suddenly, a flicker of realization lit up in Linda’s eyes. She turned to Hadley with a smirk, eyes gleaming with amusement. “It was you who orchestrated all this, right? You staged this entire show, didn’t you?”

    Hadley froze, caught off guard for a split second.

    “That has to be it!” Linda’s expression hardened with conviction as she shifted her focus to Eric. “Eric, it’s her! She knew that if something happened to her, you wouldn’t ignore it. What a well-crafted n! Not only did she get your attention, pulling you back to her side, but she also pinned the me on me!”

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