Chapter 1515

But now, without real power, she knew better than to boast. She would hide her wings carefully, waiting for the right moment to reveal them.

However, Aaron’s anger erupted the moment he heard her voice, “Tessa, you’ve got some nerve asking me what’s wrong!”

“What do you mean by that?”

Being scolded out of nowhere, Tessa’s mood soured immediately.

She needed Aaron’s help, but she wasn’t someone who could be trampled on.

No matter what, she was still Grace’s eldest daughter, not someone to be cursed at like that.

Aaron’s tone grew even sharper. “You really have the guts to ask? Didn’t you set me up?”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Her voice trembled slightly despite her efforts to sound calm. She had no idea what he meant.

How had she “set him up”?

Then it suddenly hit her.

Could he have found out about Aurora’s identity?

Sure enough, the next second, Aaron’s voice turned icy. “You told me to help you deal with your sister. Why didn’t you mention that your sister is Lucas’ wife?"

He could hardly believe how completely he had been deceived.

From the beginning, Tessa had only said that her sister was a bit arrogant and asked him to teach her a lesson.

How could he have guessed there was more to it?

He hadn’t even known the Carter matriarch’s name, only what she looked like.

When he went after her, it never once crossed his mind that the woman’s sister was Lucas’ wife.

If he told anyone about this now, even his own parents wouldn’t believe it.

But now, there was no denying it.

He really had gone after Aurora. That was a fact.

It wasn’t until Lucas showed up at his door that he realized just how powerful a man he had provoked.

At that moment, Aaron’s hatred for Tessa burned to the bone. He couldn’t believe she had dragged him into such a disaster.

And to think, he had spoiled her so shamelessly just because he’d been taken by her looks.

Now that he knew exactly who he had offended, there was no way he would ever cross Aurora again.

And now she was calling him? What, did she want to drag him down with her?

The thought only made him angrier.

But Tessa had expected this day would come. She had already prepared her excuse.

“Aaron, I really didn’t know about that,” she said softly.

He frowned. “What do you mean you didn’t know? She’s your sister. How could you not?”

Of course, Tessa knew perfectly well who Aurora was. But she couldn’t admit that now, not when things had already gone this far.

She couldn’t afford to lose Aaron as an ally, so she had no choice but to lie through her teeth.

“I don’t understand what you’re implying,” she said, feigning innocence. “I truly didn’t know my sister was the Carter family’s lady. Even my mother and I didn’t realize the man she was with was Lucas.”