My heart began to race for Michael again as I watched him like a hawk. I felt extremely secure with him here.

“How do you propose we handle this, Mr. Shaw? She’s the deputy chief’s cousin, after all. It doesn’t seem very appropriate to punish her too severely,” looking at Michael with a troubled expression, the police chief explained in a small voice.

 

“I’ll leave this matter to you, but I hope you’ll handle it fairly, Chief Lewis. I’m a very protective man. I won’t let my people suffer for nothing.”

Michael spoke nonchalantly, but the warning in his words was unmistakable; he wanted a satisfactory answer.

“Don’t worry, Mr. Shaw. I’ll handle this matter impartially.”

 

Although Chief Lewis was put in a tight spot, he caved under Michael’s intimidating aura and agreed right away.

Without another word, Michael approached me with anger simmering in his eyes.

Upon noticing that Michael was staring straight at the handcuffs on my wrists, the chief immediately barked an order to the police officer standing behind him. “What are you waiting for? Uncuff them!”

 

At his superior’s orders, the officer quickly walked over to remove our handcuffs.

After being in cuffs for so long, the skin on my wrists stung with pain. Ignoring Michael, the first thing I did was hurry over to Natalie’s side to support her.

 

case should be very easy. I’m sure the surveillance cameras caught the other two people assaulting them. You don’t need me to provide any more

I’ll take

front of Michael, I realized that

I wasn’t all that surprised. It seemed like John and his

being released? They

see Natalie and I walk free just like that, the

enough. You’re on your own now. I can’t help

shook off her hand and promptly

out,

Arrest the two of them!” the police chief ordered the two officers behind him whilst pointing

The woman stared at the

hands and shrieked, ”Why are you arresting me?

with Michael here, whatever she said

wide-eyed at the cuffs on his wrists. When he finally snapped out of it, he broke free from the grip of the police officer restraining him and ran

it too, right? She forced me to do it. I never wanted to hit you.” Panic-stricken, John

forehead was already covered with

was, in fact, pushing all the blame onto the woman. From this alone,

love John, I began

scumbag like him didn’t deserve

Natalie spoke before I could. “John, the one thing I regret most in my life is falling for you like a blind fool. It’s bad enough that you hit a woman. Now that you’re in trouble, you’re blaming it all on a woman again. I can’t believe

Every word she said was laced with disdain. I could see that she was truly

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