Joe’s face fell.

Cordelia’s tone was light. “Got to nip a weed in the bud. If I were wouldn’t get to cry and scream here at all.”

“You…” Joe was rendered speechless and could only shoot daggers at Cordelia.

The crowd snickered with palms over their mouths and whispered a judgment of who was right and wrong.

“You’re a shameless woman!” Joe got angry out of his embarrassment. “You’re the one who hit my daughter, and you accuse her instead!

“I want to call the police!”

“Yeah, we’re calling the police!” Mandy, Nelly’s mother, stepped up as well. “Let the police inspect her injury! Our Nelly’s not going to suffer a grievance like this!”

“Are you sure you want to report it to the police?” Cordelia arched her brow.

Zephyr went up to keep an arm around her shoulder and pulled her toward him, afraid she would be hurt.

Cordelia pushed him away softly and held his hand to give him a reassuring gaze.

“Zephyr, it’s alright,” Cordelia said softly. “Reporting it to the police is the best solution. I think they can inspect her injury and see whose fingerprint is on her face.”

Nelly’s eyes were filled with anxiousness as soon as she heard that.

“If I really did leave a handprint on her face, my fingerprints would be there, right?”

pulled out her phone

discreetly tugged Joe and shook her head at him as subtly as

understood it immediately. His daughter was really the one slandering others! She was stupid enough to shoot herself in

their gazes

in secret. “Keep the Tanners and negotiate with them. The consequence

sir, it’s obvious

his teeth. “It has already happened. Something needs to

“Yes, sir.” Robert nodded.

rang again with a hint of mockery. He looked at Cordelia. “I wonder

ask you first.” Cordelia smiled. “How will the

and you still want to shirk responsibility?” Joe

the one at the helm of the Tanners. He had spent years in

timid at all in front of him. He squinted.

the opportunity and chase this

that his daughter had most probably set this up herself, but he had to make a ruckus out of this for the sake of the Tanners’ interests. It must be so huge that it alarmed Liam. The woman could only be officially chased

your goal! You cling to Mr. Zephyr and see our Nelly as an eyesore. Of course you’ll do all you

I don’t like her either.” Cordelia smiled. “But even when I don’t like her, do you think I’d be dumb enough to slap her at

I were really the one who slapped her, I wouldn’t be stupid enough to give her any chance to cry and whine

Joe’s face fell.

bud. If I were wouldn’t get to cry and scream here

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