'Clara couldn't possibly be marrying Seth Quinn, could she? If she is, I'll never be able to accept it! I schemed for so long to marry Miles Quinn and got nowhere, yet Clara can just effortlessly marry the most powerful man in Novaria, Seth Quinn!'
'Even if I get my wish and marry Miles Quinn someday, would that mean Clara and I would be sisters-in-law?'
'More importantly, in the Grant family, she's my older sister. In the Quinn family, she'd be my sister-in-law?'
'Wouldn't that mean Clara would always have the upper hand? How could I ever accept that?'
...
After Cedric and Chloe Grant left, it took a long while for Clara's thoughts to settle.
But she couldn't stand to stay here any longer.
She didn't know if what Chloe Grant had said about Seth Quinn was true, or how much truth there was to it, but it made her deeply uncomfortable.
'Seth Quinn bought this house for his ex-fiancée? This was their love nest?'
'Then what does that make me?'
