A man remarked condescendingly, “Banish us out of Westchester? You sure know how to run your mouth.” “What a joke! How dare a common actress like you make threats like this?” “Ha! That’s the funniest thing I’ve heard all year!” Everyone laughed and mocked them, especially Heather. She was not even hiding it anymore as she laughed heartily and savored every moment. Isabel tried to charge at her again. Caprice hurriedly stopped her and held her back. “Stop it. Don't be impulsive." Isabel drew a deep breath. "I'll call my Dad right now.” She had enough! Caprice nodded. They would have to let Uncle Carter settle this for them. Upon hearing their exchange, the crowd began hurling snide remarks at them again.“Call whoever you want, call God himself. He won’t save you. You stole Mrs. Duwait’s pink diamond!” Sophia smiled devilishly. "Hurry up and notify Mrs. Duwait, then the police. We’re done wasting time with her. I don’t want to hear her miserable excuses an
Caprice and Isabel turned around at the same time. At the next second, Caprice broke down in tears and grievance drowned her. She cried and ran to her mother. “Mommy…” Sherry’s chest tightened when she saw her precious daughter crying. She too strode toward her daughter. Caprice threw herself into her arms. Sherry hugged the girl and asked, “What’s wrong, Caprice? Tell Mommy what’s wrong.” “Sobs…” Caprice was suffocated by her tears and grievance, preventing her from speaking properly. At a closer look, John realized Sherry was hugging Caprice. He disregarded his image and strode over with furrowed brows. He asked, “What happened to Caprice?” “Daddy…” Caprice then hugged the man as tears continued to roll down her cheeks. John hugged her as he scanned around with a frosty gaze. The security guards and staff who stopped Caprice before were stunned and dumbfounded. The people who went outside to greet Sherry and John and then followed them inside were also stunned.
Isabel scanned the crowd with a frosty gaze before she told Sherry about the stolen pink diamond. Caprice was suspected to have stolen the pink diamond because they found the diamond in her purse. Sherry frowned. Caprice had almost a hundred of those diamonds in her closet, why would she steal someone else’s? Something was not right. “Daddy, Mommy, I didn’t steal it. I don’t know how the diamond ended up in my purse,” Caprice snorted and explained. John and Caprice looked at her gently. Sherry said, “Caprice, we believe you.” John hugged the girl tight and then looked at the crowd coldly. Those who called Caprice a thief immediately averted their eyes from John and looked down in guilt. Sherry scoffed coldly. “You people were loud when you called my daughter a thief. What’s with the silence now?” Then, hurried footsteps came.“Mr. and Mrs. Stockton, Mr. and Mrs. Carter, we’re sorry that you have to wait so long.” The owner of the estate, Mr. and Mrs. Duwait, ca
Mrs. Duwait already knew what happened without looking at the surveillance footage. The reason she told the staff to cast it on the big screen was because she wanted to show everyone the truth and clear Caprice’s name in front of John and Sherry. The staff nodded and went off. “Mrs. Duwait, I have a suggestion,” Isabel stepped up and said. Mrs. Duwait looked at her standing in between Odell and Sylvia. She hesitated for a moment before she said, “What is it, Ms. Carter?” “You can call me Ms. Ross.” Isabel corrected her. Mrs. Duwait looked at Odell and Sylvia in confusion. Odell explained without changing his expression, “She used her mother’s family name.” Mrs. Duwait chuckled. “I see.” She then looked at Isabel and asked, “What are you proposing, Ms. Ross?” Isabel said with a smile, “I’d like to ask your security guards to block every exit of the estate.” Mrs. Duwait knew what Isabel was trying to do. She sneaked a furious glance at Beverly trembling at the side
The footage continued to play on the screen. A while later, Sophia and Heather started to incite a search on Caprice’s purse. Caprice gave her purse to Beverly. Beverly searched her purse in front of the crowd and found the diamond necklace in the deepest compartment of the purse. Caprice finally knew what happened. Beverly intentionally reached deeper into the purse at the very end to sneak the pink diamond inside and take it out in front of the crowd, so that it would look like Caprice had it in her purse all along. Even an idiot knew what happened after seeing the footage. The footage ended after that. The crowd was once again silenced and only the screen’s noise could be heard. Those who criticized Caprice were all silenced, nervous and anxious. Both Mr. and Mrs. Duwait were in an awkward position as well. Caprice was mistreated at their estate and they were unaware of it until now. They did not know how to face John and Sherry without guilt eating them up.
Heather seized the chance to land a few more kicks on Caprice. The women around her joined her and stomped Caprice’s back mercilessly. Isabel was under Caprice’s protection. She shouted, “One more kick and I’ll make sure all of your families are thrown out of Westchester!” Only then the women stopped kicking but their contemptuous gazes remained. It was until the staff at the entrance welcomed Odell, Sylvia, John, and Sherry, the crowd finally dispersed. The footage showed a silent crowd with Caprice and Isabel on the ground, looking miserable. The silence was like the quiet before the storm, so suffocating that people could not breathe. Other than those who were not present, those who were at the scene of bullying Isabel and Caprice were all drowned in guilt. It was John who broke the silence by saying, “Mr. and Mrs. Duwait, if you have any displeasure against me, please come at me. You shouldn’t have gone after my daughter while I’m away.” “It’s a misunderstanding!
“Don’t you know why I hit you in the toilet?” Isabel argued. “You and your friends surrounded her and tried to bully her. If I wasn’t there, you people would’ve bullied her.” Caprice wore a frosty expression and echoed. “Yeah. I ran into them when I was in the toilet. I don’t want to argue with them, so I tried to avoid them. But they stopped me and even pinched my face.” She clearly remembered what happened earlier. Sherry and John reacted coldly to their daughter’s explanation. Heather immediately argued, “No! I was just trying to say hi! I didn’t bully her!” “Let’s put this aside first,” Sherry said. She then looked at Mrs. Duwait and asked, “Mrs. Duwait, can I inspect your worker?” She looked at Beverly and continued, “I want to know why someone is targeting my daughter.” Upon hearing her words, both Sophia and Heather shuddered again. Mrs. Duwait nodded firmly. “Not a problem.” A worker brought over some chairs for John and Caprice to sit down. Odell, Sylvia, a
Her husband was trying to get her out of the sticky situation and also give a satisfying explanation to John and Sherry, so that the two of them would forgive them. Sophia bent over and knelt before John and Sherry. She cried and said, “Mr. and Mrs. Stockton, it’s my fault. I shouldn’t have bribed her, I shouldn’t have hurt your daughter. I was wrong.” John continued to pat Caprice’s head without saying a word. Sherry scoffed. She knew the Masons were putting up a show to ask for forgiveness. She asked, “Why did you bribe Beverly to hurt Caprice?” Sophie’s eyes flickered nervously. “I-I saw Ms. Stockton and Ms. Ross hit Heather, so I was thinking of taking revenge. That’s why I bribed Beverly.” “I’m the one who hit Heather, Caprice didn’t even touch her,” Isabel bellowed, “Mrs. Mason, if you want to take revenge, you should’ve gone after me but you went after Caprice instead. Why?” “Yeah! Why did she go after Ms. Stockton?” someone in the crowd asked. Sophia was silen