Will You Marry Me, Again by Pear Heart

Reputation?

A man walked toward the runaway. He had an intimidating aura as he walked toward Maia and took out a black handkerchief to clean the residue from her forehead.

“It’s swelling.” He looked at her gently, but his tone was upset.

Moments later, Baz came into the hall with a group of security guards and restrained the woman who threw the egg at Maia.

“Unhand me! She was brave enough to commit murder, so why is she so scared of hearing what people are saying? We’re not allow to even ask for justice for Zera, just because Mr. Cedric is protecting Maia Burgess!” The woman continued to struggle against Baz as she yelled.

The woman had managed to ignite a storm of anger in the once silence hall. The organizers had also rushed over to check on the situation. They were shocked as something this controversial had never happened in the history of the fashion show.

The organizers immediately apologized to Cedric, but Cedric only turned to them and asked for a microphone.

The person–in–charge was taken aback for a second before instructing his staff to bring over a microphone and passed it to Cedric.

Moments later, Cedric’s voice echoed through the hall, “The police have already cleared Maia of all charges as she was still in a coma when Zera Larkin was found dead. In other words, she is innocent.”

This statement caused a commotion in the hall. Upper–class society was complicated. Even so, the highly esteemed Cedric had just publicly defended the woman he loves without a second thought.

“If she didn’t do it, then why would she so eagerly remove any sort of news about her? Isn’t that an admission of guilt? Even if she didn’t do it personally, who could guarantee that she didn’t pay someone to do it?”

“I was the one who ordered news about her to be removed.” Cedric eyed the woman who questioned him dangerously as he replied coldly.

must really love Maia if

his ex–wife!

woman who was still restrained

her on the cheek.

out as the crowd had not expected Maia to publicly

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for the injury you gave me on my forehead.” Maia said and raised her hand to give

groundless accusations you just threw at

struggled against the iron grip restraining her as she glared daggers at Maia. She had even tried to lift her legs to kick

pathetic appearance and grabbed her face. “I don’t care who you are or how much you have up your

was shocked as she could not even utter a word while looking at Maia in horror. Cedric came up to Maia, took her hand in his and asked,

the others in the room as he continued to give her hand a light squeeze when he noticed that her palm was slightly

actions and tried to struggle out of his

reputation, I’ll make you pay!” Cedric looked around

Maia had

as he immediately lifted Maia and carried her toward

already in his arms. She turned to study him closely as her mind was flooded with conflicting thoughts. Gratitude, hatred, love. She could only smile as she tried to comprehend all the

the hall recovered to its original state.

really scary. I’ve heard rumors that he could not forget Maia, and it appears they’re true!

just checked online, the police had released

we’ve all been played. Someone had tried to lead the public into believing that Maia Burgess was the prime suspect in

that Ms. Rita’s statement was