"Mom was thrilled to hear you came, but she's been overworked lately. She fainted last night and is still in the hospital. We're keeping her company and had our phones on silent, so it was inconvenient to answer calls," he explained. "Plus, since you changed your numbers, we thought it might be a telemarketer, so we didn't pick up. That caused such a big misunderstanding."
With that, Arthur pulled out his phone and showed a picture of his mom in the hospital, an IV in her arm as she lay in bed.
These photos had been edited by Avery at the last minute.
They looked so real that even he would have believed they were genuine.
The Stevens family was instantly silenced, unable to continue their complaints.
Onlookers quickly dismissed any doubts about Claire and the Carter family upon seeing the photos.
"I knew the Carter family was decent. There's no way they'd abandon their elders. There must be some misunderstanding here."
