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!”

you’ve gone too far, Joanna Haynes!” Bruce cried.

just been bluffing. And that made him even angrier with her.

did not

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

completely 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

coldly, taking out a recorder 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

all happened too soon. So, she never had the

even though the recorder had recorded nothing, it was enough

Roxanne’s face went pale when she heard

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

see? Let’s just go look at the

in her stomach, Roxanne took Bruce’s arm. Yet she

Chapter 19

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

so nervous?”

nervous! No, I’m just… I just don’t want to make a big deal out of 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

at Roxanne grimly. “Roxy, did you

wrong. Don’t

ahead,” 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 judgments. After all, that one man is blind and stupid doesn’t

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