Jacqueline’s eyes flashed as she answered, “It’s a pendant.”

“What kind of pendant? Ms. Graham, can you describe it?” queried Natalie with a mockery look on her face.

Upon seeing that, Shane guessed something was strange about the pendant. His face darkened as he inquired, “Jacqueline, what did you give Natalie?”

“I…” Jacqueline gripped her fork tightly and stammered.

Natalie couldn’t wait for the former to finish her sentence. Hence, she sneered, “You can’t tell, right? I’ll do the honors. She gave me a mouse pendant.”

“Mouse pendant?” Shane’s brows were knitted tightly into a deep frown upon hearing that. “Jacqueline, why did you give Natalie a mouse pendant?”

Jacqueline lowered her head and replied, “B-Because… M-Ms. Smith was born in the Year of the Mouse. S-So…”

Natalie stared at the former and said, “I’m happy if you give me a mouse pendant because of the year I was born because those accessories were usually cute. But the mouse pendant that you gave me was Professor Ratigan from The Great Mouse Detective, an infamous criminal. Obviously, it was custom-made. So, what are you implying?”

Having heard that, Shane understood what had happened.

Jacqueline gave Natalie a custom-made mouse accessory, but the mouse did not look cute. It looked like Professor Ratigan, who was an infamous criminal.

 

In other words, Jacqueline gave Natalie the pendant to imply that the latter was a thief.

turned dark, and the temperature around

 

my words?” asked Shane

eating, Natalie patted Connor on his shoulder, signaling for the latter

to let the children know about adults’

Jacqueline’s

wife. You just promised me about that, but now you give her the mouse pendant. Last time you

shuddered as though she was shocked upon seeing Shane’s response. Her tears fell even more at that moment. “Shane, don’t

the second time I found you target Natalie. There won’t be a third time. You’d

that, he held Natalie’s hand to lead her out of the

Jacqueline

her head

about the pendant, causing her to be

too extreme recently. If she didn’t stop targeting Natalie, Shane’s patience towards her would slowly wear off by her own doings.

Shane had reached

her hand from Shane and said, “I

think I am that kind of

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