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Chapter 739: 739: Giving You Six Yuan (9)
Chapter 739: 739: Giving You Six Yuan (9)
Chapter 739: Chapter 739: Giving You Six Yuan (9)
Maya Mitchell had been repeatedly struck without any cause or any strength to fight back. To her, she was the most in the wrong, the most abhorrent. In her heart, she just wanted to resolve this peacefully, end this farce, and leave as soon as possible to avoid further embarrassment.
Maya didn’t even dare to look up at the police, burying her head in her knees and shaking her head slightly without making a sound.
If Mrs. Leighton was in the wrong, Maya was equally hateful. For the police, the most troublesome cases were these clear-cut, simple domestic disputes. One party acts immorally, while the other overreacts. Seeing Maya shake her head, the police quickly scolded Mrs. Leighton before leaving.
Mrs. Leighton had hit and scolded enough to let her anger out. Picking up her bag, she walked away with her head held high under the watchful eyes of the crowd.
As the disturbance ended, the onlookers followed suit and dispersed. Some curious passersby couldn’t help but ask others what had happened. Quick-tongued people blurted out without hesitation, “That woman’s a homewrecker. She just got caught in bed with someone’s husband and got beaten.”
“Young girls these days… how can they be like this at such a young age?”
Maya crouched on the ground, listening to the voices around her gradually fading away. She slowly lifted her face from her knees, took a deep breath, and stood up with her head hanging.
Her feet were injured, her abdomen ached from Mrs. Leighton’s kick, and her face was numb and stiff from the more than a dozen heavy slaps.
With her head down, holding back tears, she kept reassuring herself. It didn’t matter how much humiliation and embarrassment she faced now. Once Mr. Leighton signed the collaboration agreement for the project with her, Steve Burton would be happy and praise her…
In her mind, Maya tried hard to recall Steve’s cool, plain voice when praising her, “Maya, you’re even better than I imagined.”
She also thought of Steve’s faint smile, even though it was so faint it was almost nonexistent. It was enough to make her heart race with joy, like a hundred flowers blooming.
Maya slowly raised her head in the midst of this self-comfort, intending to hail a taxi by the road. However, as she turned to look, she saw a familiar couple, and her expression instantly froze.
It was Steve Burton and Ruby Gregory.
What were they doing here and how long had they been watching?
Immediately, Maya’s mind raced with these thoughts, and her heartbeat quickened in panic.
She instinctively raised her hand to cover her bruised face, but just as she did, she saw the man she had admired for years tenderly draping a coat over Ruby Gregory, not far away. Because of the distance, she couldn’t hear what he said to Ruby, but she could see Steve’s face was incredibly soft and affectionate.
In her memory, he never showed his deepest emotions on his face, yet, for this woman, Ruby, he always caught her off guard.