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Elsie’s eyes turned red as she put on a pitiful expression. “Yunice, you met Paul first. It’s understandable that you still have feelings for him. I can give him back to you.”*
Gill’s temper red the moment she <b>saw </b>this pretense. “Oh, shut up! That filthy cucumber you used and threw away, our dog wouldn’t want it. If you don’t want it, just chop it up and throw it in the garbage. Don’t use it to disgust ourdy! You don’t <b>have </b>any proof, just a dirty mouth. If you can’t prove that Ms. Saunders has seduced <b>anyone</b>, I’ll tear that lying mouth right off your face!”
<b>Yunice </b>sneered. “Enough <b>talk</b>. Let’s get the presents.”
Lily had clearly brought all this up to buy time and distract from the real issue, stopping us from taking the gifts.
Gill thought the same. No use wasting breath on them!
She squared her shoulders and pushed Owen aside with one strong move, then pulled the safe box open.
Yunice quickly returned the <b>remaining </b><b>nine </b>items to their original gift boxes.
As he watched Yunice coolly repack the boxes, Owen’s face darkened with anger.
He stepped forward and pressed his hand down on the boxes, gritting his teeth<b>. </b>“Yunice, I’ll say it again! No one here wants these gifts! If you don’t exin your rtionship to Quinton right now, I won’t let you take them!”
I was worried that Yurice had done something shady with Quinton and needed answers
“No one here wants these gifts!” <b>Yunice’s </b>gazended mockingly on the jadeite bracelet on Elsie’s wrist.
Owen’s face tightened “Elsie, give her the bracelet. I’ll buy <b>you </b>something betterter.”
Elsie nodded proudly, tears in her eyes. “I <b>don’t </b>care about that vulgar thing!”
She rugged hard at the jadeite bracelet, her wrist turning red, but it wouldn’te off
Gill rolled up her sleeves and came forward. “Here, let me help!
The moment she moved, Elsie jumped in fear and ducked behind Owen. He instinctively shielded her and scolded Yunice. “Don’t push it! I already said we’d bring her back. It’s not her fault if it doesn’te off!”
Yuniceughed coldly. “It’s on her wrist; that makes it her problem. What, if you can’t take it off <b>in </b>a store, you just get to keep
it for free?”
Owen snapped, “<b>So </b>what do <b>you </b>suggest?”
Yunice replied calmly, <b>“</b><b>This </b>bracelet is <b>worth </b>4 million dors. Either <b>you </b>pay me the full value, or you <b>sacrifice </b>the wrist and keep the bracelet
*Sacrifice the wrist? Lily looked confused.
Gill smiled. “You really don’t get it? It means if the bracelet <b>won’t </be off, then cut off the hand, it’lle off just fine”
Shock shed through Owen’s eyes. He yelled, “Yunice, are you even human?!”
And he was the one who agreed to <b>suppress </b>his own father’s spirit for eternity, and I wasn’t human?
Yunice had long grown ustomed <b>to </b>Owen’s hypocrisy. She smiled. “I thought you’d never agree to pay. In that case, I <b>have </b>another solution.”
Elsie lowered her eyes, perfectlyposed. Whatever Yunice came up with didn’t matter. As long as the jadeite bracelet stayed on my
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Yunice didn’t bother to answer. She just pulled out her phone and dialed. “Hello, is this the police! I want to report a theft”
Lily screamed and grabbed the phone from her. Her voice quavered <b>as </b>she said into the speaker, “Sorry, my daughter isn’t mentally well. She’s just talking nonsense. No need for the police.”
She ended the call with a loud snap
Elsie’s face had already gone white.
Owen was justing to terms with what had happened. Yenice really called the cops over a bracelet?
But Yunice wasn’t angry about the call being cut off.
That had never been my goal.
I didn’t want to put Elie behind bar, I just wanted the jadeste bracelet back
Lily’s voice shook. “Your sister wasn’t going to take it. How can you call it stealing? And now you’re using her in front of all
“When you take something without asking, it’s stealing. Isn’t that what you all told me when my bracelet with the Confucian ssics went missing“”
Back then, the bracelet belonged to me, and they still called me a thief without blinking an eye.
So why couldn’t I file a report now?<ol><li>Lily was at a loss. Finally, she said weakly, “We can talk this out. We’re family, after all.</li></ol>
Yunice turned to Owen. “I have no rtionship with Quinton. That’s exactly why I can’t ept such an expensive gift. It has to be returned. So what do you suggest we do with the bracelet?
Owen’s expression became conflicted.
Saunders Hospital isn’t doing well, and the family tar financially trapped Spending 4 million dors on a jadeite bracelet is a massive
But making Elsie take the fall for theft? Or cut off her hand?
Neither is an option.