A Crazy One-night Stand

Chapter 104 The Lost Necklace

Alina was not interested in meeting Sophie.

However, Silvia glared at her angrily. "You don't know what's good for you. My mother even told me to

get along well with you in the future. Is someone like you worth my time?"

Hearing Silvia's words, Alina's heart began to beat faster.

Inwardly, she hoped to get Sophie's approval. After all, she was Scumbag's mother.

She followed Silvia to a luxurious room.

When Sophie saw her, she sighed and changed her usual cold attitude. "Have a seat!"

Although her expression wasn't friendly, Alina was pleasantly surprised. At the very least, she wasn't

glaring at her nor ridiculing her.

She sat down and said politely, "Thank you, Auntie!"

Sophie frowned again in disgust and sat down opposite her. She poured a cup of tea, pushed it across

the table, and said impatiently, "Drink this!"

"Thank you, Aunt!" Alina immediately held the teacup in her hands and took a sip to show respect.

Sophie suddenly spoke up. "What should I do for you to leave my son alone?"

With a single sentence, Sophie dashed Alina's hopes. She was truly naive to have thought that the

meeting this time would have a different outcome.

She composed herself and said, "Auntie, Wilson and I really love each other. We will not be

separated!"

With that, Alina didn't say anything else. She was afraid that she would offend Sophie if she said too

much. It was enough to just express her decision firmly.

"Oh, listen to yourself! Are you blaming Wilson now?" Sophie's tone was full of sarcasm.

"Aunt, that's not what I meant. Please have a rest as I excuse myself!" After saying this, Alina put down

the teacup and strode away.

She couldn't stay there any longer in case an argument broke out.

In her hurry, she did not notice the deceitful smile on Sophie's lips.

At dinner, Monica was still present at the table, to everyone's surprise.

Mr. Scott sat down at the table and said, "Wilson is on a business trip overseas. He will probably be

back in a few days. Lina, remember to come back and accompany me every day!"

There were two underlying messages in his words. First, he hinted at Monica that Wilson was on a

business trip so she should hurry home. Secondly, he wanted to tell everyone that he acknowledged

Alina's position in the family.

Alina nodded. "Yes, Grandfather!"

Her gratitude towards Lincoln could no longer be described in words.

A marriage out of social class would never be smooth sailing. At the very least, she still had

Grandfather's support, so she must try her best.

Suddenly, Lincoln asked, "Silvia, why hasn't your mother come over for dinner? Ask someone to check

on her, is she feeling unwell?"

Only then did Alina raise her head and realize that Sophie didn't come down for dinner. It was truly

strange. Wasn't she fine just now? Could it be that she was so furious that she refused to eat?

Hearing her grandfather's words, Silvia immediately replied, "Oh, I don't know either. I'll go take a look."

As soon as she walked to the door, Mr. Kyree came in and whispered something into Lincoln's ear. The

expression on his face changed and he declared sternly, "Lina will never do such a thing!"

This sentence caught everyone's attention.

What exactly did Alina do?

There was a lot of gossip surrounding Alina's past. Furthermore, she was the reason that sent the

share price of Scott Group tumbling, which caused dissatisfaction within the Scott Family. However,

they did not dare to say anything because of Lincoln's support.

The day before yesterday, Lincoln had reprimanded Rainee for mentioning Alina's previous relationship

with Ken at the dinner table.

Was Lincoln going to believe the rumours and withdraw his support for Alina?

If that was the case, that would be great!

Everyone present at the table looked around at each other with bright eyes, waiting to see what would

happen. At this moment, no one was interested in eating.

They stood up expectantly.

However, Lincoln turned around and roared at the rest of the family, "Sit down and eat. Don't be such

busybodies!"

Therefore, everyone sat down reluctantly.

Lincoln added, "Lina, come with me!"

"Yes!" Alina immediately followed behind him, with the butler and Silvia in tow.

They walked towards the building where Sophie lived. On the way, Silvia glanced at Alina from time to

time with a devious smile on her face. She couldn't wait to drive Alina away from the Scott Family.

They found Sophie in the room where Alina met her before dinner. It was not a bedroom, nor was it a

study, but a parlour to receive guests.

When they arrived, there were already servants bustling around inside the room.

Besides the servants, there was also a young man in a uniform. At this moment, he was dusting for

fingerprints on a teacup.

Sophie's face was emotionless as she stared at the teacup in the man's hand. When she noticed

Lincoln coming, she raised her voice, "Check everything carefully. Who would have thought that there

would be a thief in the family? What an outrage!"

Mr. Scott frowned and asked sternly, "What's going on?"

Sophie turned to the door as if she had just noticed their arrival at that moment. "Father, the necklace

that Miss Monica gave me this afternoon is gone!"

Lincoln frowned. "You accused Lina of stealing the necklace just because it was gone?"

Sophie glared at Alina, who was standing beside Lincoln and explained, "No, Father. It's just my © 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

suspicion."

Lincoln's expression darkened.

Sophie continued, "Miss Alina was the only person to enter this room today. I'm not accusing her of

taking the necklace, but she is the most suspicious. After all, the necklace is an inanimate object and

can't grow feet."

Lincoln asked, "What was Lina doing here with you?"

Sophie answered his question quickly, "This afternoon, I asked Miss Alina to come here because I

wanted to have a good talk with her. Since Wilson is so kind to her, she should explain how true the

rumours online are. Wilson had suffered so much in his previous relationship, as his mother, I really

don't want to see him get hurt again. Even if Miss Alina has no social status or family background, I

won't mind as I only hope for Wilson's happiness. But now, there are so many terrible stories about

Miss Alina on the Internet. As her mother-in-law, I have the right to know what truly happened, right?

So, I asked her to come over and explain herself!"

Lincoln frowned again and said sternly, "Lina could not have taken your necklace. She is not a thief!"

Alina's heart was filled with anger and grief when she heard Sophie's words. She knew that Sophie was

unreasonable, but Alina never thought that she would think up such a sinister plan. She deliberately got

Silvia to bring Alina here in order to pin the crime on her.

After hearing Lincoln's words, she was moved to tears. Grandfather was so kind to her that she didn't

know how to repay him. With Grandfather's trust, it was enough for her!

Alina held back the tears that threatened to spill out of her eyes and bit her lip. If she was innocent, the

truth would speak for itself.

Sophie continued, "Father, that's hard to say. There's a saying, one may know a person for a long time

but not know his nature. Everyone in the Scott Family are trustworthy, there hasn't been any incidents

of theft in the villa. This afternoon, Miss Monica and I went to the Brooks Family to buy a necklace,

after that I placed the necklace in a teacup. After that, Miss Alina came over to chat. Due to a slight

disagreement, Miss Alina left in a short while. However, the necklace was gone when I wanted to come

to dinner. Miss Alina was the only one who came to this room. Apart from her, I really don't know who

else could have stolen the necklace."

At this moment, the uniformed man stood up. "I found two sets of fingerprints on the teacup."

Alina looked at the teacup and her heart sank.

The man was actually waiting for her to turn up. Sophie had really thought of a brilliant plan!

She quickly explained to Lincoln, "Grandfather, when I came over in the afternoon, Aunt Sophie poured

me a cup of tea. I did have a sip, so there may be my fingerprints on the teacup."

Lincoln turned to Sophie angrily. He was furious that his daughter-in-law had played such a dirty trick to

frame others.

However, Sophie appeared nonchalant.

She went along with Alina's words. "Yes. There were two teacups. One was used as a teacup, the

other held my necklace. Miss Alina has really good eyesight to claim that the teacup was the one she

used. Are you completely sure?"

Alina peered carefully at the teacup. Based on her memory, this should be the teacup she drank from in

the afternoon. However, since Sophie was trying to frame her, who knew what she had planned in

mind?

With a frown, Alina said, "When I was drinking tea in the afternoon, I didn't inspect the teacup carefully.

I just said that there might be my fingerprints on the cup."

Sophie became indignant. "Your mouth is really full of lies. Did you deceive my son with your pretty

lies? Let me tell you now, this teacup is not the one you drank from, but the one with the necklace."

After that, she said to the man in the uniform who had extracted the fingerprints, "See if one of the

fingerprints are mine?"

Sophie quickly walked to the table and dipped her thumb into the black powder used to dust for

fingerprints. She marked her fingerprint on a piece of paper and showed it to the man.

He nodded cautiously. "Yes, Mrs. Scott. One of the fingerprints on the teacup belongs to you."

"What about the other one?" Sophie still looked furious.

Alina's heart couldn't help but beat faster. She grew up in an ordinary family, the only pressure she had

in life was due to poverty. She didn't have any experience in handling the power struggle and schemes

within affluent families.

With gritted teeth, Alina walked to the table, dipped her thumb in powder. and pressed her fingerprints

on the paper as well. "If the fingerprints on this teacup match mine, I would like to ask you to bring out

the teacup I drank from this afternoon to prove that this teacup contains the necklace."

"Good, very good! I will prove it to you!" Sophie glared at her fiercely.

After comparing the fingerprints, the man said, "Mrs. Scott, this young lady's fingerprints match the

other set of fingerprints on the teacup!"

Alina suddenly felt sadness welling up within her. She really wanted to burst into tears!

She was obviously manipulated, but she couldn't show her anger, and she had no way to refute

Sophie. It was really unbearable!

Sophie gave Alina a cold glance. "Alina, I'll show you the teacup you drank from in the afternoon. I'll

personally get it!"

With this, she walked to a small room next to the parlour.

As soon as she walked in, she screamed, "Who the hell did this?"