An Understated Dominance

Chapter 205

Dahlia frowned slightly, slowly coming back to her senses. Looking at Florence hop around energetically, she was astounded. “Mom, I thought you said you broke your hands and feet? How can you still stand?”

“Huh?” Florence’s face froze, and she forced a smile. “When I saw Julie, I got a little too emotional and temporarily forgot about the pain. I should lie back down and get some rest right away.”

With that, she limped to the bed.

But those horrible acting skills fooled no one.

“Mom, are you actually

actually fine and were just pretending to be hurt in front of me?!” Dahlia’s face sank.

“How can I be fine? Didn’t you see how Dustin hit me? Ouch held her head and began to put on a show again.

My head is starting to hurt again!” Florence

“You said you have a concussion and broken limbs. Well, where’s the case file from the hospital? Show it to me!” Dahlia demanded.

“Well…” Florence and James both looked at each other, speechless.

Seeing their reaction, of course. Dahlia caught on.

“So you two have been lying to me all along? All for what?” She bit the bottom of her lip.

“Fine. I’m not hurt! So what? Seeing that her ruse was up, Florence stopped pretending.

She said indignantly, “Although I didn’t get hurt, it’s still true that that animal beat us up. You saw what happened in the video. Could that be faked?”

“That’s right! Dahlia, look at the injuries on my face. He did this to me!” James played along.

“Give me your phone!” Dahlia demanded, her gaze cold.

“W–what do you want my phone for?” James felt a niggling sense of guilt.

“Just give it to me!”

Without another word, Dahlia snatched the phone from his hands. She looked for the full video and played it with the volume turned up.

After grasping the entire situation, her body began to tremble from head to toe. She finally understood why her brother had been beaten up.

crossed the line and went to

guys lie to me?!”

lie to you. That animal was wrong to hit us. Even if we started it, he had no right to hit us back! So what if we hit him? We’re older than him; can’t we teach

didn’t

pinned the blame on Dustin, deliberately twisting the

that ass wasn’t responsible for this as well. If he hadn’t framed Julie, would we have gone over to pick a light? In the end, he had it coming for him!”

in uniform alighted from the police car that stopped in front

Julie Amberson’s family, am I right? I am Chief Aspen Cruiser. Regarding Julie’s case of medicine theft, although Mr. Rhys has decided not to pursue the matter, you still need to make sure she learned her lesson and won’t make the same mistake again. If Mr. Rhys hadn’t said anything today, Julie would probably have remained in there for a few more

“Mr. Rhys?”

each other. “Wasn’t it Mr. Laney Sr. who

I’ve never heard of

he said that, everyone’s eyes llicked over

wasn’t even

had they thanked the

Matt felt his face flush, as if he’d been slapped on both

This was fucking humiliating!

this “Mr. Rhys‘ is that

else could it be? Of course, it’s Dustin

soon as he said that,

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be him?!” After learning the truth, Florence and the others

million years had they considered that it wasn’t Matt who saved Julie,

was simply a slap

never framed Julie in the first place, and it was you guys purposely slinging mud at him?” Dahlia stood rooted

as white as a

what he did wrong, so he’s trying to make things up to us!” Florence

used to bossing people around; of course, she would never admit that she had gotten

about Dustin.

would be too

come to this, and you still want to justify

heart was clenching.

have saved her? In the end, he was just feeling guilty for doing something wrong!” Florence insisted

right! If he didn’t do it, why

had enough of you guys!” Dahlia’s emotions finally

on Dustin? What exactly did he do to you? Must you purposely pick fights with him? In our three years of marriage, he has always been honest and agreeable, but you have always had a prejudice against him. Even though he had never done anything wrong, you kept pushing blame on

was basically roaring by the end

Everyone was scared stiff.