“What?”
The robber gaped at him, wondering what was happening.
“I know your business is also challenging nowadays. Run! Hurry!”
“OK.”
Still puzzled, the robber held the handbag in excitement. Immediately, he ran away fast.
“Robin Bailey!”
Miranda also gaped at the scene as she didn’t expect Robin to let the robber run away. She yelled, “You bastard! You are my sworn enemy from now on.”
She knew Robin had done so to revenge on her as she took pleasure in his misfortune earlier.
Robin shrugged.
In fact, he thought he treated Miranda nicely. After all, he had calmed down, so Miranda’s bonuses wouldn’t be deducted. Besides, if the robber turned left in front, he would enter a police station instead of an alley.
Robin had done what he could.
Suddenly, he heard a voice behind him. “How dare you rob in my presence! Dream on!”
“Click!”
Robin heard the sound of bone cracking in the distance. When he looked back, he saw Lacey capture the robber. No wonder she was known as the most violent woman in Stillwater.
A while later, Lacey walked to Robin and Miranda while holding the handbag. “Who’s the owner?”
“It’s mine.”
Miranda was delighted after watching Lacey help her. She hurriedly walked over and thanked Lacey. “I know the citizens in Stillwater are always warm-hearted. Much better than this cold-hearted jerk,” she remarked while glaring at Robin.
‘Warm-hearted…’
Lacey felt much better earlier. However, Miranda’s remark made her pull a long face. Not long ago, many onlookers praised her for being warm-hearted, but it turned out she had misunderstood Robin.
She did something evil out of kindness.
“All right. I gotta go.”
Seeing Robin aside, Lacey stroked her face and felt the heat. She still felt too ashamed to look into his eyes, so she strode away. Inwardly, she reminded herself she still owed Robin.
“Look at her. Look at yourself!”
Miranda glared at Robin in a complaint and patted her handbag. Then she was about to leave. However, she had run too fast earlier, so the heel of her shoe broke.
While she was standing, it worked fine. Once she wanted to trot away, she fell to the ground.
“Ouch!”
Miranda frowned, rubbing her ankle. She tried to stand up but failed. In the end, she had to look to Robin for help.
“Help me stand up.”
“Why should I?”
They both quieted down. From the very beginning, they never got along and constantly quarreled. Earlier, Miranda even had her pleasure from Robin’s misfortune. Also, Robin returned her handbag to the robber.
They were more like foes than friends.
“Forget it.”
Seeing how pitiful Miranda was, Robin shook his head. No matter what, Miranda was Elise’s bestie. For Elise’s sake, Robin walked to her.
“Take my hand. Don’t lean against me. Distance yourself from me as far as possible. I don’t want Elise to misunderstand.”
Seeing Robin reach out and hearing his first line, Miranda was touched. However, after he finished speaking, she snarled, “Think I love to lean against you?”
Although she complained, she held Robin’s hand.
If she refused his help, she couldn’t go home.
On the way home, while walking, Robin looked annoyed. Tugging the hemline of his shirt, Miranda also looked sickened. “Don’t think I’ll agree with you to be with Elise after helping me! Never! You should know who you are clearly. How can a security guard deserve Elise? She’s Lands Corporation’s chairwoman of the board,” she said fiercely.
“There’s a huge gap between you two. Give up!” she repeated.
Miranda had never thought Robin deserved Elise.
Robin only replied to her with a grunt without speaking a word.
After talking for a long time, Miranda found Robin ignoring her. He didn’t take her words seriously.
“Shameless!” she snapped.
Soon, Miranda arrived at her apartment.
She didn’t stay in a high-end villa but an apartment in a building with a lousy environment. Robin didn’t expect the Robin-Sophia Group’s PR department director to live in such a place.
Although he had deduced her bonuses, her salary remained the same.
“I live upstairs. Want to have some water?”
Although Miranda looked down on him, he helped her home. Therefore, she invited him to enter her apartment.
“OK.” Robin helped her go upstairs.
After arriving at her door, he saw a man in his sixties sitting there. The old man’s hair was messy, and he wore a gray shirt with a depressed look.
“Why are you here?”
Miranda saw him, her expression changing.
“My dear daughter.”
The old man stood up while staring at Miranda tenderly. “Your mother sent me here. Your younger brother is getting married soon. We need to buy him a house, so we need 50, 000 dollars.”
“She’s not my mother.”
Miranda glared at the man in disgust. “Keegan Levis, my mother found you cheated on her with that bitch. Later, my mother passed away in a car accident, so you dumped me and married that woman as you wished. My so-called younger brother is the son of you and that damned woman. He has nothing to do with me.”
Listening to them, Robin roughly figured out what was going on.
Elise once mentioned Miranda’s family. They used to be the Hour family’s neighbors. Ten years ago, Miranda’s family declined. Her mother passed away in a car accident.
Her father married another woman and dumped her. Fortunately, Miranda had grown up at that time. She worked part-time and relied on scholarships to complete her university studies.
Then she left Stillwater and moved to the capital.
“Miranda, how can you say that? You are my biological daughter. You cannot forget me. That woman requested me to get the money from you, or I couldn’t go home. Please have mercy on your poor father!”
Keegan Levis, Miranda’s father, looked pitiful.
His clothes looked dirty.
“It’s not my business.”
Miranda frowned. Back then, her father and stepmother dumped her. However, they shamelessly bothered her all the time.
“Stop saying that! He’s your younger brother.”
Keegan became anxious. Looking over at Robin, he said, “Young man, you must be Miranda’s boyfriend. I agree with your marriage. Help me convince Miranda. I only need 50, 000 dollars. She must help her younger brother.”
He promised the marriage to let Robin help him.
However, Robin retorted, “You want her to give the money to you, but I’d rather she burn it. As the old saying of Kisia says, ‘the old without morality is hateful.’ You are one of them.”