The Billionaire's True Heiress From Fake Jewel to Real Crown novel Chapter 701

Seeing Octavia still upset and seething with resentment,

Lance turned to her and said, "She really has no obligation to take care of me."

Octavia became even more displeased. "Are you two really my children?"

"I'm upset for your sake, and you turn around and blame your mother."

"You two siblings are quite in sync now."

Both Lance and Cindy fell silent.

They realized Octavia was becoming increasingly unreasonable, but it was hard for them to say anything.

Octavia was likely under more pressure than either of them right now.

She had to constantly worry about the family falling apart and whether her son's leg would ever fully recover.

Even worse, she had to worry about Latham settling the score with her once he weathered the storm.

But it wasn't their fault, was it? Hadn't Octavia brought this upon herself?

Seeing her children's reactions only made Octavia feel worse.

If Latham hadn't wronged her first, she never would have acted out in a fit of rage...

Her children couldn't understand her, and she had nowhere to vent her grievances.

Naturally, Claire had no idea that Octavia was furious about her refusal to visit Lance.

Even if she knew, she wouldn't care.

Nothing Octavia said could influence her anymore.

In the laboratory, Claire threw herself into her intense workload.

She even ate her lunch right there in the lab.

It wasn't until her shift ended in the late afternoon that she finally headed to the hospital cafeteria.

Claire borrowed Lawler's meal card, and the two of them grabbed dinner together.

The hospital food wasn't exactly a culinary masterpiece, but it was clean and sanitary.

Tomorrow was the weekend, and Lawler had requested time off, hoping to take Claire to his hometown.

His family lived in a rural town just outside of Apex.

Back then, he had been desperate to leave his hometown because living with his father had been too suffocating.

The years of discord between father and son had finally begun to shift after he witnessed and acknowledged Claire's skills in traditional medicine.

Lawler figured she wasn't anyone important and just gave Cindy a polite nod.

Cindy felt a pang of disappointment at being ignored.

But she knew her relationship with Claire had always been strained, so this kind of treatment was entirely normal.

"Lance is awake. You can go see him if you have time."

Spending the entire day at the hospital—she couldn't possibly be hanging around this Dr. Lawler the whole time, right?

If that were true, Cindy wouldn't even know what to say.

"Sure," Claire nodded dismissively.

Whether she went to visit or not was none of Cindy's business.

Cindy truly had no right to interfere.

Cindy knew this as well. With no reason left to linger, she had no choice but to go get her soup.

That specific soup required a doctor's slip just to order, and it was in extremely high demand.

"Your hospital's nutritional soup is certainly popular," Claire teased Lawler as she noticed the line.

"Isn't it? That soup recipe actually came from the traditional medicine department."