Half-Hearted: Mr. Sinclair, Stop the Act!-Chapter 180: Ex-Fiancée

Sienna Monroe furrowed her brow slightly.

This name sounds a bit familiar.

Had she seen it somewhere, or heard it somewhere?

She couldn’t quite recall.

However, anyone who knew Sebastian Prescott and made an impression on Caleb Sinclair must be from a prominent family in the Imperial City.

Grant...

The most famous family with that last name in the Imperial City is the top scholarly family in the West End, the Grant Family.

The foundation of the Grant Family is even more profound than that of the Munroes in Eastwood. Several generations back, the ancestors of the Grant Family held high-ranking positions in the Imperial Court.

Even now, in the literary world, the Grant Family holds an esteemed position, revered by many.

The Monroe Family has always adhered to the principle of being ’low-key’, but the Grant Family is different.

Almost everyone from the Grant Family has their own boundless glory, no matter which field of the literary world they belong to.

The family situation of the Grants isn’t considered complicated, yet it’s a big family.

Claire Grant...

Sienna Monroe savored those two words in her mouth.

Judging by her current impression and partial understanding of Ivy,

in terms of temperament, knowledge, appearance, demeanor, and conversation, she indeed seemed to be from a family of scholars.

A text message reminder told her that Ivy was not someone to be deeply involved with, so she couldn’t let her guard down.

As they say, know the enemy and know yourself, and you can fight a hundred battles without defeat.

When she got home, Sienna didn’t rush to open her packages, instead, she took out her phone and searched for the Grant Family member list.

She didn’t know which ’ci’ in Claire was hers, so she had to start with Baidu.

But, she found nothing.

Was she looking in the wrong direction?

Could it be that Ivy wasn’t from the West End Ainsworth Family?

But she knew Sebastian Prescott, and if she guessed correctly, the ’aunt’ she mentioned earlier should be Sebastian’s mother.

Being able to come and go freely from the Prescott Family suggests her identity must be quite remarkable.

It takes two hours to travel from the West End to Southcroft, and she would spend two hours coming to Southcroft just to deliver Western-style pastries to Sebastian Prescott.

This alone shows that her relationship with Sebastian is certainly not ordinary.

Sebastian Prescott...

She pressed her lips tightly, a chaotic mix of thoughts suddenly surged in her mind.

After pondering for a moment, she entered his name into Baidu on her phone, and the first thing that appeared was his Baidu Encyclopedia.

She had looked at this Baidu Encyclopedia the first time she learned Sebastian Prescott’s name from the mysterious text message.

The information was the same as what she saw more than four months ago.

But in the ’relationship’ section of the entry, she unexpectedly saw the name "Claire Grant".

Last time, perhaps because she was on the brink of extreme sadness and breakdown, she only saw what she subconsciously wanted to see.

Just a fleeting glance at this ’relationship’ section.

That’s also why the name "Claire Grant" felt so familiar just now.

The name Claire Grant was ranked sixth in the ’relationship’ section.

Below it, the relationship was written as ’former fiancée’.

Former fiancée!

Ivy is Claire Grant!

Claire Grant was Sebastian Prescott’s former fiancée...

Sienna Monroe’s pupils shrank.

But what does all this... have to do with her?

So much so that a text message specifically reminded her?

She furrowed her brow tightly, reopening Baidu to search for the keywords Sebastian Prescott and Claire Grant.

As expected, news about the Grant Family unilaterally breaking off the engagement with the Prescott Family more than five years ago quickly popped up on the webpage.

It was quite a scandal at the time, stirring up quite a storm in the city.

Yet Sienna Monroe knew nothing about it.

What was she doing more than five years ago?

Just graduating from college and starting a long-distance relationship with Caleb Sinclair?

Due to her family’s environment, she had never been one to gossip or discuss others’ affairs.

So she never paid attention to so-called reports like that.

Sebastian Prescott and Claire Grant had been engaged since they were young.

It was around the time of that earth-shattering kidnapping case involving the Prescott Family when they were about three years old.

They grew up as childhood sweethearts.

There was very little online coverage of Claire Grant, not even a single photo could be found, including at their engagement party eight years ago, where no photos or videos were released.

The Grant Family protected Claire Grant very well.

But why?

This doesn’t conform to the Grant Family’s usual style.

After all, Claire Grant appears to be anything but lacking.

Wait a moment...

Ivy is not someone to be deeply involved with.

This phrase contains multiple meanings.

She inexplicably recalled what Sebastian Prescott had said to her outside the courthouse, a symbol of supreme fairness and justice: ’Would you consider borrowing my presence for some healing?’.

Her heart suddenly thudded twice.

Claire Grant was Sebastian Prescott’s former fiancée.

Could their direct conflict of interest be... romantic?

Could it be because they were love rivals that they shouldn’t be deeply involved with each other?

Is that the reason?

Sienna Monroe asked herself this repeatedly.

But she still found it incomprehensible and couldn’t reach a complete and definitive answer.

*

Two days later, perhaps to match the New Year’s atmosphere, another snowfall descended upon the Imperial City.

Sebastian Prescott organized the transfer documents for the storefront properties included in the joint assets of Sienna Monroe and Caleb Sinclair.

There were two copies, totaling more than thirty documents.

Sienna took over half an hour just to sign and stamp her personal seal on them.

Sebastian categorized and sorted the signed transfer documents and casually asked, "Going back to Eastwood for the New Year?"

"Yes," she replied.

"When?"

"The day after tomorrow," Sienna said. "Isn’t the law firm on holiday?"

"Yes. Once Caleb Sinclair finishes signing these transfer documents, I’ll head back to the West End too. The law firm resumes on the sixth day of the New Year."

"Then the law firm resumes earlier than our art gallery, which opens on the tenth day,"

Sebastian looked at her face slowly and said, "The lawsuit for the recovery of assets has already been filed, and the copy should reach Vivian Nash after the New Year."

Sienna nodded lightly.

This matter wasn’t urgent, the only regret was that Vivian Nash got to enjoy a good New Year. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

Now that she was divorcing Caleb Sinclair, how would Caleb proceed with Vivian Nash?

Marry her?

It would be reasonable, considering there’s one in the belly.

Thinking of this, she sneered, teasing her lips.

Once Sebastian finished summarizing, he seemed to have remembered something and asked, "The other day you mentioned something about a prophetic dream to Claire Grant, what did you mean?"

"Hmm?"

Sienna snapped back to reality and instinctively made a soft sound.

Sebastian furrowed his brow slightly, recalling how she had addressed Claire Grant last time, "You don’t know Claire Grant’s real name?"

Sienna nodded and said, "During her collaboration with our art gallery, she used her stage name—Ivy."

After about half a minute of silence, Sebastian suddenly explained, "She is the third young lady of the scholarly Grant Family from the West End."