Chapter 2
“Let go! Let me go!”
I fought with all my strength to rush over and protect Ellis, but they held me even tighter.
Two security guards held down my arms and pinned me hard to the floor, while Joel walked over with an arrogant expression.
He slapped me across the face.
“That’s what you get for pretending. You broke loser, don’t you see where you are?”
The commotion drew even more people over, and they began whispering among themselves.
Joel took the chance to directly slander Ellis and me.
“Everyone, come take a look. This father and daughter came here to steal from my store.”
“If I hadn’t paid a little extra attention, he would’ve almost stolen a watch worth a million dollars.”
“Tell me, shouldn’t people like this be beaten?”
When the crowd heard that, the faces that had just shown sympathy instantly turned hateful.
“So they’re thieves. No wonder they’re being treated like this. They deserve it!”
“If you ask me, they should call the cops and hand them over.”
“She already knows how to steal at such a young age. Looks like she’s no good either!”
Ellis cried until tears streamed down her face, and she explained in a torn voice.
“That’s not true! My daddy isn’t a bad person. We didn’t steal anything. They’re clearly framing us!”
Slap! As soon as she finished speaking, a heavy slap landed on Ellis’s face.
It was delivered by one of Joel’s fawning subordinates.
“What are you shouting for? Did your dad teach you that?”
“No, he didn’t. My daddy isn’t broke. He is—”
“Mmph—” Before Ellis could finish speaking, someone covered her mouth and kicked her to the ground.
“Shut up. Who told you to talk, you little brat? You’re so noisy!”
A raging fire burned in my heart, and I didn’t know where the strength came from, but I immediately broke free from the security guards and started fighting with Joel.
During the struggle, I yanked out the tie around his neck.
A familiar rose-red color entered my sight, and the underside of the tie was printed with the initials of my name.
Wasn’t this… wasn’t this the tie Ford gave me on our fifth anniversary?
It was custom-made worldwide, and there was only one of its kind.
It had gone missing more than half a month ago, and my wife said the housekeeper might have accidentally thrown it away as trash.
But how could my tie be with him?
My pupils constricted, and I gripped the tie tightly, my hands trembling uncontrollably. “How do you have this?”
Joel’s lips twisted, and he smiled. “What, jealous of me?”
“I’m asking you, where did you get this?”
A terrifying thought exploded in my mind.
I was furious beyond control, rushed forward, grabbed his collar, and felt my chest pounding hard again and again.
The flames of anger nearly swallowed my mind.
“I took it from my wife’s house. Got a problem with that?”
He still looked contemptuous. “You’d better not damage it. This is something you probably couldn’t afford even if you worked your whole life.”
He tried to pull it back from my hand.
“Bastard!” I raised my fist and slammed a heavy punch into his face.
“You dare hit me?”
He went crazy and grabbed my clothes, tearing at them.
With the help of the security guards, he quickly pinned me down and kicked me hard in the stomach.
“You dare hit me? Are you tired of living?”
I stared at him. “Let me go right now, or you’ll regret it.”
“Regret?”
He laughed. “There’s no such word as regret in my dictionary.”
“Mr. Joel, why waste so much breath on him?”
“Doesn’t he care about this little bastard so much? Why don’t we make him suffer a little?”
Joel’s follower suggested this while dragging Ellis over by her hair.
My pupils constricted. “Don’t you dare!”