Shannon played along and brought out the card machine. She chuckled and said to Jennifer and the middle-aged woman, "Ladies, you don't look like you've brought a lot of cash. It's alright, we have a card machine here.""You're being unreasonable. I don't have any money and won't be paying for them. I don't want these things anymore!" the middle-aged woman shouted and threw the bags in her hand on the ground. She also kicked the bags as well. One of the bottles of alcohol shattered.Laura wasn't annoyed at all. "It's alright if you don't pay. Since you mugged the things from my store, the police are already here. I'll have to ask them to take you away to bring justice.""Don't worry, Ma'am. We will definitely treat everyone equally. We won't let any victim suffer."The police officer at the front nodded at the officers behind him. The officers got their order and walked towards Jennifer and the middle-aged woman."Ladies, please follow us.""What are you doing? What do you want?"
After knowing that Laura was fine, Chris felt relieved. He placed one hand in his pocket and the other hand was holding the phone and typing with it."Ring me if there's anything." Chris typed another message.Chris was very protective. He wasn't going to let his wife get hurt under his watch.Laura replied with an "OK" sticker and a smiling emoji.During lunchtime, Laura quickly ate lunch and headed out the store with something in her hand.She wanted to head back to the Walker family's house during lunch. The pair of gloves and the scarf she bought online for her grandmother had arrived. She was taking them to her grandmother.She came to work in Chris's car in the morning, so she didn't have her electric scooter with her. Therefore, she was now headed to the Walker family's house on a shared bicycle.The weather in Empfield changed very quickly. It would be 30 degrees one day and 10 degrees the next. One would be taken by surprise.When the cold wind was blowing past Laura,
"Come with me right now and apologize to Jessica's mother. Give her back the 2400 dollars as well. She's my mother-in-law, that means she's yours as well. How dare you ask her for money when she just takes some things from you. Are you out of your goddamn mind?" Luke was absolutely furious. "If you're not coming with me, then Jessica's going to have an abortion and you'll be the murderer, you son of a bitch! How can I have a sister like you?"The cruel words came from Luke's mouth and stabbed into Laura's heart like daggers.Laura stood where she was and didn't do more. She felt a chill down her back.She did have problems with Luke in the past, but that all came from Luke asking her for money. He would always spend money recklessly. Once she found out, she would stop giving him money. Apart from that, Laura still cared about this brother of hers.When they were little, Nicholas had gone out to work and Shona liked going out and playing poker with her friends. Laura would be the on
Luke was in his 20s. He was a young man and was very strong."Grandma!" Laura quickly checked Linda out, but she seemed to have the wind knocked out of her. She didn't seem to be opening her eyes."Grandma, are you alright?"Tears welled up in Laura's eyes.Luke was taken aback as well, but he had no intention of checking on Linda.Shona wasn't taken aback at all. She was just scared that Nicholas would blame her when he came back. She quickly squatted down. "Mom, how are you feeling? Why did you have to protect this bitch? Luke didn't do it on purpose, are you alright?"Luke frowned impatiently. The phone in his pocket rang. He took it out and looked at the screen. The call was from Jessica, so he quickly answered the call.No one knew what Jessica said on the other end of the line. After Luke hung up, his face darkened. He threw the phone on the sofa and walked up to Laura. He then grabbed her hair."Come with me to the hospital! You're to kneel in front of Jessica and her mo
"Stop, you monster! Stop! Luke!"The corridor was filled with Shona's screams.Luke struggled at first, but as time went on, he stopped struggling. He was just lying there and had no strength to struggle anymore."Ahem. Chris, that's enough." Laura climbed up from the ground.She was worried that if Chris had beaten Luke to death, it would affect his life.After hearing Laura's voice, Chris stopped what he was doing, but he was still emitting a cold aura. He walked up to Laura and looked at her messy hair. Her face was filled with palm marks from Luke slapping her. Chris's heart ached as he looked at the state of Laura."Grandma." Laura was still thinking about her grandmother. She turned around and ran inside the room to help Linda back up."How unlucky..." Linda continued to cry. She reached out her hand in an attempt to touch Laura's face, but didn't know where to start due to all the palm marks on Laura's face.Laura took a deep breath. She wanted to cry as well, but was af
Shona wanted to stop Chris, but one look from him froze her dead in her tracks.Chris and Laura came down the stairs. Cold wind blew past and made Laura hunch her shoulders.Chris turned around and looked at Laura. He suddenly reached out, buttoned her jacket on for her and caressed her hair.Laura was startled by Chris's sudden actions and froze where she was.The two of them became closer and closer. Laura could smell the scent on his body."Alright, let's go.""Okay." Laura bit her lip. Her eyes had turned red and even she didn't notice.Chris drove the car over. After getting into the passenger seat, Laura asked, "Why did you suddenly come over?"She didn't recall telling him that she was coming to the Walker family's house earlier today."I went to the convenience store to look for you during lunchtime and you weren't there. Your staff said that you came to the Walker family's house, so I came over to take a look."Chris had received a piece of cake and was going to shar
Looking at Laura's white and smooth skin on her shoulders, Chris's eyes darkened. He then quickly looked away.Laura noticed that Chris wasn't looking anymore, so she quickly put on her jacket and said with a red face, "Alright, I'm done.""Okay." Chris turned back around and passed the small bag in his hand to Laura. "There's medical cream inside, you can apply it to your wounds."Laura looked down and saw that it was a cream to reduce swellings.She bit her lip and said, "Thank you."She was going to put some ice on the wounds at first to reduce the swelling.Chris frowned. He was a little dissatisfied with Laura saying thank you to him. "We're married. You don't have to say thank you to me."He remembered that he had told Laura this before. She didn't need to say thank you to him. Why couldn't she remember?It would be a lie to say that Laura wasn't touched.A man appeared to her rescue when she was in danger and protected her. After that, he was worried about her injuries
Laura smiled, but didn't comment on Shannon's words.However, she had to admit, that Chris did treat her quite well.Shannon had been keeping an eye on the store during the whole of lunch, Laura allowed her to get off work early to rest.As soon as Shannon left, Laura's phone rang.She looked at the caller ID and fell silent. But in the end, she chose to answer the call."Dad.""Laura." Nicholas's voice sounded on the other end of the line.Laura pursed her lips but didn't say anything. She waited for Nicholas to speak."Laura, you don't need to come back to the Walker family's house in the future."To Laura, she felt that Nicholas was the only person in the Walker family that would speak up for her. But his first words made Laura want to cry. Tears trickled down her cheeks."Your brother's currently in the hospital. The doctors said that he would be hospitalized for a week." There was a short pause. "Get your husband to come and apologize to your brother when you have time."