While Dorothy was still in a daze, she heard the middle-aged noblewoman sneer, “Germaine, it is not your place to lecture me on my problems with Jeremy. Tell me, how many times have you spread your legs at him over the years, and how many times has he turned you down?
Do you really think he will like a sl*tty woman like you? Don’t be delusional. He only thinks of you as a pet. He will abandon you once he gets sick and tired of you.
By the way, you might not know this just yet but Jeremy and the lady from the Yeager family will be marrying at the end of this month. Germaine, your reputation is worse than a stinking ditch, yet you dare think you’re good enough to get married to someone like Jeremy? Dream on.”
“Nonsense!”
Germaine’s eyes turned red in an instant, her trembling hand raised in the air, wanting to slap the middle-aged noblewoman in the face. However, when she heard that Jeremy was going to be engaged to another woman, she felt her heart break painfully. Her arms began to twitch from the pain, and the strength she had before dissipated in that instance.
“Oh, you want to hit me?” The middle-aged noblewoman, Jeremy’s mother, Ysabelle, mocked coldly. “Germaine, if you dare lay a finger on me, I will have my bodyguards shred you into pieces.
Gordan is lying in the hospital, unwilling to care about any affairs and your uncle won’t give a d*mn either. I am in charge of the Sherman family now. If you still want to be a noble young lady of the family, then you’d better not go against me! Otherwise, I can’t promise that I won’t hurt you. Whether you live or die now, will wholly depend on my mood.
What’s more, Germaine, I am warning you. Stay away from Jeremy and stop pestering him like a mink dog. What’s more, you’re his stepsister, and I am his mother. I will never let you be with him. You’d better give up that idea forever.”
After that, Ysabelle smiled and said calmly, “Germaine, you’re pretty disgusting, aren’t you? Are you really that into incest?”
Germaine was instantly irritated by those cruel words. She furiously shook her head, as if shot by lightning. She took a few steps back and said with a ghostly pale face, “No, I’m not. There’s nothing wrong for me and Jeremy to be together, we’re not related by blood. I like him. I just fell uncontrollably in love with him. Is that so wrong?”
“I don’t care who you like. I won’t care even if you fell in love with a beggar on the street. However, this is Jeremy we’re talking about. If it’s my son that you’re after, then yes, it is wrong. You’re just a dirty sl*t…”
Ysabelle kept calling Germaine names. She was called dirty, depraved, making her feel as if tens of thousands of arrows had pierced her heart. Her heart prickled painfully causing her to tremble. Her white lips quivered, and she could not get a word at all.
When she saw Germaine’s tears flowing like tap water, Dorothy could not bear to stand by and just watch her friend get mistreated any longer. She rushed up and pushed Ysabelle hard and shouted, “Shut up! Shut your dirty mouth up right now!”
She used all her strength to push and her action caught Ysabelle off guard, making her stumble back several steps. There was a burning pain in her shoulder.
“How dare you push me?”
When Ysabelle came back to his senses, she was extremely furious. With a vicious look in her eyes, she turned her head and ordered the bodyguards in black, “Are all of you blind? Didn’t you see her attack me? Beat these little b*tches up. Beat them to their death.”
They replied in unison, “Yes, Madam.”
Three or four bodyguards in black let go of the trembling young man and rushed forward to surround Dorothy and Germaine. They began to punch and attack them fiercely.
When Dorothy saw that things were about to take a turn for the worst, she quickly pulled Germaine behind her and leaned against the hard wall, firmly protecting her friend behind her. She clenched her teeth and bore the fierce punches of the bodyguards.
Germaine had already gone through a lot for Belle’s safety, after all. Dorothy could not let her friend take any more pain.
“Dory, the person she wants to humiliate is me. You should leave, don’t worry about me,” Germaine widened her eyes, a trace of sadness flashed across them. The brightness that could even outshine the sun in them from before seemed to have disappeared entirely. Her heart was torn, her whole body trembled and she could barely speak.
“Dory, all I did was fall in love with a man who didn’t reciprocate my feelings. I’m not f*cking wrong, right?
I didn’t wallow in self-pity nor did I demean myself. All those men I flirted with, I’ve never slept with any of them. I only asked them out for a drink to ease my boredom. I have always kept myself for Jeremy and him alone.
However, in the end, I still couldn’t. But it wasn’t my fault. The way she’s humiliating me like this is not fair, she has gone overboard!”
Seeing Germaine on the verge of breaking down, Dorothy knew that whatever comfort she had planned to provide would be completely useless. With gritted teeth, she endured the pain from the punches while holding Germaine tighter to secure her safety. In a hoarse voice, she began to say, “Germaine, you’re right. You didn’t do anything wrong. She’s the one who has gone too far. She showed you no mercy.”
Amidst the chaos, Dorothy tried to take out her cell phone from her bag. Just as she wanted to call the police, she suddenly heard an explosive roar coming from the outside, “You old hag, what the f*ck are you doing?”
At this moment, a familiar voice reached Dorothy’s ears. It was like music to her ears.
She trembled from excitement and shouted with all her might, “Juelz, Germaine and I are in here. This woman is horrible! She insulted Germaine and asked her bodyguards to beat her up too…”
Juelz replied in anger, “Dory, are you okay? Don’t worry, I’ll save you guys right away.”
The next second, a man emerged from the crowd. With his long legs, he took several quick strides and rushed towards them like the wind. After attacking the bodyguards to the ground fiercely, he squatted down and pulled Dorothy and Germaine up with his two strong arms from the corner of the room. His voice was full of anxiety as he spoke, “Dory, why are you here? I’ve been trying to call you for days, but I couldn’t get through nor do I have any news about Belle. I was so f*cking anxious. Thank goodness you’re fine. Where’s Belle?”
As he rambled on, he assessed Dorothy’s injuries with a worried frown.
Germaine quietly watched as Juelz looked at Dorothy earnestly and lovingly. She remembered how indifferent Jeremy was when he said that he didn’t want to sleep with her. The weakest part of the heart spiked in pain as if it had been stabbed with a knife.
Dory was really lucky. With her cousin around to treat her wholeheartedly, there was no need for her to be a third wheel.
At the thought of that, Germaine suddenly rushed towards the several bodyguards on the ground and sneered at them with cold determination. She picked up a heavy chair and threw it at them aimlessly, making them scream in pain.
Ysabelle did not expect the situation to turn out so badly for her. She was stunned for a while and when saw Germaine threw the chair aside and walked towards her sinisterly. She realized she was in a bad position and wanted to leave immediately.
“Madam Sherman, why are you running? I happen to have time. Let’s have a nice chat.”
Germaine suddenly pounced on Ysabelle and grabbed her carefully styled hair firmly and proceeded to yank her towards the gates of the bar.
“Ah!”
Ysabelle screamed in pain. She struggled to free herself but could not resist Germain’s strength. Eventually, she was forcefully dragged out and could do nothing to help herself.
On the other side, when Dorothy saw Germaine dragging Ysabelle away. She knew that with her personality, she would be able to fend for herself, so she let her be.
But as soon as she relaxed, she suddenly felt every inch of her body was in pain.
It was obvious those bodyguards did not hold back their punches.
Dorothy could not help but wince in pain. In the end, she could not stand Juelz’s nagging, so she followed him to a small hospital nearby to do a full-body CT scan and an MRI scan to confirm the extent of her injuries.
After walking out of the hospital, Dorothy touched the red and swollen edges of her lips and smiled helplessly, “Juelz, I told you, I’m fine. You worry too much.”
Juelz felt his heart ache when he saw her swollen face. He could not help but lower his head and touch her fair and tender forehead. He tried hard to suppress his bright smile but failed. “Dory, I’m relieved that Belle is fine. Alas, the two of you had me worried sick these few days. I think I’ll only ever truly feel at ease if I tie the both of you to me at all times.”
There was an obvious grievance on his handsome face which made Dorothy feel very guilty. She ignored the fact that his chin was still on her forehead and smiled apologetically, “Juelz, I was so elated after I found Belle. I forgot to tell you immediately. I’m sorry.”
However, what she didn’t realize was, to Juelz, the way she had not moved away from him meant that she must have accepted his attempt at getting intimate with her. With a gleeful smile, he moved his head even lower and slowly made his way to her soft lips.
Suddenly, he noticed an extremely cold gaze directed at him. Juelz’s brows twitched and subconsciously raised his head to look up ahead.
As expected, he was met with the sight of a black Maybach speeding over. It was only less than half a meter away from where they were at that moment.
The man who got out of the car looked fierce, and the icy glare he was sporting screamed nothing but danger.