The room fell silent. Both Cody and Alfred were out of words.

Clara laughed to herself, “Did you guys enjoy the miserable story of my life? Did it make you laugh? Now that you’ve had your laugh, could you eat the food and be gone?”

“Listen!” Cody instantly stood up, “Clyde didn’t do anything for Lana White. He married you because he saw through her nasty tricks, and he decided to forget her. He was always treating you extremely kindly, wasn’t he? I bet he had never done anything ...