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!”

gone too far, Joanna

And that made him even

was not afraid of cops. He did not want to be bothered

when reporters were still downstairs. If he was taken away by

calmed down. She spoke up again as her tone got harsher, “If you don’t mind 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 her dress! Anyhow, we

recorded everything you

a tiny recorder all the time! But it all happened too soon. So, she never had the

enough to protect her. At least, Roxanne would not

Roxanne’s face went pale when

she could kiss goodbye to the innocent maiden image

Let’s just go look at the

Yet she failed to hide the slight unease

Chapter 19

Roxanne’s nervous reaction, and he realized that things might not be so

so nervous?”

her heart skipped a beat. The next second, she put on her usual innocent look and said,

he stared at Roxanne

I didn’t! Bruce, don’t get me wrong. Don’t believe any of

she said. “When the officers get here, let’s go to the station together, and the truth will come out. Roxanne, there are a lot of reporters downstairs. I’m sure if this evidence gets out, people will have their own

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