An Understated Dominance by Marina Vittori

Chapter 205

Dahlia frowned slightly, slowly coming back to her senses. Looking at Florence hop around energetically, she was astounded. “Mom, I thought you said you broke your hands and feet? How can you still stand?”

“Huh?” Florence’s face froze, and she forced a smile. “When I saw Julie, I got a little too emotional and temporarily forgot about the pain. I should lie back down and get some rest right away.”

With that, she limped to the bed.

But those horrible acting skills fooled no one.

“Mom, are you actually

actually fine and were just pretending to be hurt in front of me?!” Dahlia’s face sank.

“How can I be fine? Didn’t you see how Dustin hit me? Ouch held her head and began to put on a show again.

My head is starting to hurt again!” Florence

“You said you have a concussion and broken limbs. Well, where’s the case file from the hospital? Show it to me!” Dahlia demanded.

“Well…” Florence and James both looked at each other, speechless.

Seeing their reaction, of course. Dahlia caught on.

“So you two have been lying to me all along? All for what?” She bit the bottom of her lip.

“Fine. I’m not hurt! So what? Seeing that her ruse was up, Florence stopped pretending.

She said indignantly, “Although I didn’t get hurt, it’s still true that that animal beat us up. You saw what happened in the video. Could that be faked?”

“That’s right! Dahlia, look at the injuries on my face. He did this to me!” James played along.

“Give me your phone!” Dahlia demanded, her gaze cold.

“W–what do you want my phone for?” James felt a niggling sense of guilt.

“Just give it to me!”

Without another word, Dahlia snatched the phone from his hands. She looked for the full video and played it with the volume turned up.

began to tremble from head

wasn’t the ungrateful one. It was her mother and brother who crossed the line and went

you guys lie

had no right to hit us back! So what if we hit him? We’re older than him; can’t we teach

furious. She didn’t expect that her mother would be

pinned the blame on Dustin, deliberately twisting the truth

Even if we were impulsive this time, it doesn’t mean that ass wasn’t responsible for this as well. If he hadn’t framed Julie, would we have gone over to pick a light? In the end, he had it coming for him!” Florence shouted with

man in uniform alighted from the

to make sure she learned her lesson and won’t make the same mistake again. If Mr. Rhys hadn’t said anything today, Julie would probably have remained in there for a few more years. Do

“Mr. Rhys?”

the others looked at each other. “Wasn’t it Mr. Laney Sr. who helped

never heard of him,” Aspen

soon as he said that, everyone’s

it wasn’t even

thanked the wrong

Matt felt his face flush, as if he’d

This was fucking humiliating!

is that you’re talking about?” Florence still

an eyebrow. “Who else could it be? Of course, it’s Dustin Rhys. Who else would

soon as he said that, the entire

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Florence and the others looked at each other for a while, disbelief

years had they considered that it wasn’t Matt who saved Julie, but the person they

a slap in

it was you guys purposely slinging mud at him?” Dahlia stood rooted

was as

he knows what he did wrong, so he’s trying to

was used to bossing people around; of course, she would never admit that she had gotten the wrong idea

about Dustin.

would be too

things have already come to this, and you still want to justify

heart was clenching.

bastard hadn’t framed Julie, why would he have saved her? In the end,

it, why

had enough of you

agreeable, but

by the end of her

Everyone was scared stiff.

couldn’t stand it anymore.

car and

however, couldn’t