Suddenly, Josie crouched down. She squatted in the corner, crying uncontrollably. “If anything happens to Mr. Zimmerman, I won’t let you off the hook!”

Arnold’s heart skipped a beat. He hadn’t expected her to make such a move. He nudged her with his leg and urged, “Get up. There are many people here.”

People came and went, all finding it amusing as they fixed their gaze on her.

Josie continued to cry. “I’ll only stop if you promise me you won’t let anything happen to him!”

Arnold found it impossible to agree. “I’m not the king of the world. How could I possibly know what will be uncovered?”

“I hate you!”

She sobbed uncontrollably, not at all resembling a woman who had given birth. Instead, she seemed more like a little girl.

Hearing her sobbing, Arnold did indeed soften a bit, but he still nudged her. “Get up!”

Josie cried even harder. “Charles was a connection left to me by Old Mr. Russell. If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t have used him. He trusted me so much, yet I betrayed him. What kind of person does that make me? You’ve really caused a lot of harm!”

It sounded as though it was truly unfair.

He squatted down beside her. “Is the network of connections Old Mr. Russell

“Of course!”

the important one,

let out a choked gasp. “You’re spouting

down her face, a sight Arnold couldn’t bear to witness. He took her by the hand and led her away, distancing them from the

closely, making faces behind his back. Yet, the moment

to me?” he asked. Hearing that, Josie lowered her head and replied, “He doesn’t want me to

style, always

wasn’t an insult. Josie nodded vehemently in

unsteady. She deliberately moved closer to him, lowering her voice.

evidently became

had conspired with them to set a trap for me, to use me. You said Dexter was using me, but aren’t you doing the same?” The night was shrouded in a melancholic haze, and the woman’s eyes were filled with deep emotion yet shattered. “What is real,

as if he had gone mad, he was unexpectedly moved by the

“You’re drunk,” he said.

said you loved me and that you could

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