Chapter 19

Time seemed to freeze for a while.

Bruce felt so weak, but luckily, he was strong enough not to pass out on the spot.

“How dare you taser me?” Bruce fixed his murderous eyes on Joanna as if a falcon was targeting its

prey.

Joanna staggered back a little, but still, she managed to calm herself down. “It was self–defense. If you come at me again. I’ll call the police!”

Bruce snorted with angry laughter. “Call the police? Well, go ahead!”

He was the number one man in Greyport!

To put it bluntly, even the local government needed the support of the Everett family! Even if the police come, they would side with Bruce!

“Don’t be angry, Bruce. Joann didn’t mean to…”

Bruce scoffed, “It’s none of your business. This is between her and me!”

At first, he did it for Roxanne. While now, he was just taken control by his rage.

Joanna called out to the door, “Cora.”

Cora, her personal assistant, pushed the door open and came in. “Yes, Ms. Haynes?”

“Call the police immediately. Tell them there’s trouble here!”

“I see!”

far, Joanna Haynes!”

had just been bluffing. And

was not afraid of cops. He did not

now at this critical moment when reporters were still downstairs. If he was taken away by cops,

making a scene, let’s go to the police station together! Doctors will know if I had really assaulted Roxanne. If I pushed her, there would definitely be my fingerprints on

from her pocket. “I have a recorder here. It has recorded everything you just said to me. If you don’t mind, I’ll play it right now so that

recorder all the time! But it all happened too

under the circumstances, even though the recorder had recorded nothing, it was enough to protect her. At least, Roxanne would

expected, Roxanne’s face went pale

just said to Joanna, then she could kiss goodbye to the innocent maiden image she had maintained for so many years. All her schemes would be

Let’s just go

stomach, Roxanne took Bruce’s arm. Yet she failed to hide the slight unease in

Chapter 19

at Roxanne’s nervous reaction, and he

you so

it,” stammered Roxanne as her heart skipped a beat. The next second, she put on her usual innocent look and said, “The police officers will have to take us to the police station. That will definitely cost us hours.

took a deep breath as he stared at Roxanne grimly. “Roxy, did you just lie to

Bruce, don’t get me wrong. Don’t believe any

come out. Roxanne, there are a lot of reporters downstairs. I’m sure if this evidence gets out, people will have their own judgments. After all, that one man is blind and stupid doesn’t mean

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