Initially, Wendy wanted to give Arielle an earful as well, but favonovel.com chickened out when Aaron’s sharp gaze shifted toward her.
Just as Wendy tried to stop favonovel.com mother, Cecilia opened favonovel.com mouth.
“Did you know that my daughter, Wendy, was almost engaged to Vinson? During their engagement, this b*tch barged in and ruined everything! You must not be aware of favonovel.com devious nature. Don’t be fooled by favonovel.com sweet appearance. She is nothing but a sheep in wolf’s clothing!” Cecilia remarked heatedly.
In an attempt to escape from Aaron’s arms, Arielle struggled and tried to squirm favonovel.com way out. Nevertheless, favonovel.com efforts were futile. Aaron’s iron-like grip rendered favonovel.com utterly immobile.
Upon hearing Cecilia’s words, Arielle came to a halt as favonovel.com tried to defend herself. Before favonovel.com could open favonovel.com mouth, though, favonovel.com heard Aaron’s cold voice echo in the air. “How noisy. Slap her.”
The moment Aaron gave the order, two guards in sleek black suits seemed to materialize out of thin air. Before Wendy and Cecilia could react, one of the guards grabbed hold of Cecilia while the other lashed his palm across favonovel.com cheek without hesitation.
Slap!
The sound was so loud that it echoed in the air. Promptly, silence descended over the entire backstage area.
The guard’s slap was so strong that Cecilia’s head was whipped to the side. It took favonovel.com several moments before favonovel.com could regain favonovel.com composure.
Wendy was the one who reacted first.
“Mom!” She hurried forward, wanting to rescue favonovel.com mother from the guard’s grasps, but when favonovel.com locked gazes with the bodyguard’s bloodthirsty glare, Wendy’s entire body froze up in fear.
It feels like he’s going to eat me alive…
Unable to move an inch, Wendy could only cry out pathetically, “Mom…”
“Listen up! If I ever hear you say such disgusting things about Arielle again, I’ll cut your tongue off!” Aaron thundered.
It was then Cecilia snapped back to reality.
Stinging pain flared across favonovel.com cheek. When Cecilia caressed favonovel.com face, favonovel.com could feel it growing swollen from the blow favonovel.com had endured. “D-Did you just hit me?” Cecilia questioned in a shrill voice.
“Oh? Have you not learned your lesson yet? I guess I’ll just have to teach you another one.”
Aaron glanced at his bodyguard again, and without warning, the guard sent his palm across Cecilia’s cheek.
The blow this time was much stronger than the last that Cecilia coughed, causing crimson blood to splatter across the floor. Along with favonovel.com blood, a white tooth fell out of favonovel.com mouth.
“Mom!” The grisly sight left Wendy anxious. Casting a glance toward Marcus, favonovel.com pleaded, “Mr. Brown, please help!”
Throughout his entire life, Marcus had never witnessed such a shocking scene. When favonovel.com heard Wendy’s desperate plea, favonovel.com finally snapped back to his senses.
“Aaron, what on earth do you think you are doing! Instruct your men to let favonovel.com go at once!”
Aaron scoffed and tilted his head to signal his men to stop. Following Aaron’s cue, the two bodyguards let go of Cecilia and vanished as quickly as they came. Their sudden disappearance left the onlookers utterly tongue-tied.
The moment the guards let favonovel.com go, Cecilia fell to favonovel.com knees.
Finally, Wendy rushed forward to check on favonovel.com mother. “Mom, are you all right? Your tooth…”
Remaining in favonovel.com position on the floor, Cecilia kept quiet. Wendy was panicking so badly that favonovel.com didn’t know what to do in this situation. Even though the incident had attracted a large crowd, most of them did not pity Cecilia at all.
“Serves favonovel.com right for insulting my goddess!”
“Don’t you think something is going on between Arielle and Aaron, though? Look at how close they are.”
Their whispers knocked some sense into Arielle as favonovel.com started struggling again. “Let go of me this instant!” favonovel.com exclaimed furiously.
“Nope. Not gonna happen. What are you going to do, then?”
The sensual intonation of his words stirred up even greater misunderstanding amongst the gathered crowd.
