Winnie turned to look at Annie, her eyes suddenly bing cold. “Was it you who hit her?”

Annie raised her chin guiltily. Just as she was about to speak, Winnie pped her directly across the face.

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The scene was filled with immediate gasps of surprise.

“Oh my…”

The force was so strong that Annie’s head tilted to the side. She covered her face in disbelief. “Did you hit me?”

Without a second word, Winnie pped her again.

Annie’s cheeks burned with searing pain, and her mind went nk.

Winnie held Laura in her arms and eximed angrily, “I brought this child here. If you dare touch her, I’ll return the favor two–fold!”

Annie’s body trembled from Winnie’s words, and her eyes turned red with fear.

Winnie had pped her in front of so many people.

Nathan rushed over upon hearing themotion. “What’s going on here?”

Seeing him, Annie seemed to have found a mainstay. Sheined to Nathan in a grievance, “Mr. Graham, please help me. The child brought by Ms. Yale hurt my daughter. As a mother, I was angered and pped the child. But Ms. Yale wanted to devour me. She pped me twice in the face, but my daughter is innocent!”

Laura retorted, “That’s not true! Mandy has never liked me. She bullied me in school, and now she wants to bully me here too. Just now, she wanted to hit me, but I dodged, and she tripped on her own dress. I didn’t push her!”

Her words were sincere; there was not a hint of guilt found in them. She didn’t even shed a tear.

Nathan raised an intrigued eyebrow.

He thought that she look like a wolfling – fierce and impressive.

Antonio also squinted his eyes.

Laura showed no signs of fear and stood up for herself against the bullies. Antonio was impressed.

Zayn picked up the details and held her hand. “Laura, is this not the first time they’ve bullied you?”

Laura nodded and said righteously, “Back in school, she wouldn’t let anyone y with me and even locked me in the restroom. She has never been nice to me, and I don’t like her either. But I neverid a hand on her.”

That was because she lived with Louis and didn’t want ito /icause trouble for him.

Therefore, she didn’t fight back.

Zayn’s gaze darkened. He looked at Mandy, who pretended ito /ibe innocent, and raised his hand, wanting to hit her.

Annie hurriedly shielded Mandy. “What are you doing? Are there nows here? Are you going to resort to violence in front of me?”

Terrified, Mandy nested in Annie’s arms as she stared at Zayn fearfully.

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Zayn was calm andposed, but his eyes were veiled with swirling darkness that seemed to emanate from the depths of hell. “I will make Mandy pay!”

The onlookers were all taken aback and gasped in shock.

Clearly, Zayn wasn’t one to be trifled with.

Nathan looked at Zayn with a hint of admiration.

“Very well, he knows how to protect what he loved. Very well, indeed,” he thought to himself.

Antonio rolled his eyes.

With him, the biological father, present in the scene, he believed that Zayn didn’t need to show off himself.

Annie chuckled disdainfully. “Oh? Where does this scione from? Unfortunately, we live in a society governed byw. My daughter is the victim here. You bunch have bullied us mother and daughter. I will call the police and have you arrested!”

Antonio red at her coldly and asked, “Where’s the person in charge? Let’s retrieve the surveince footage.”

Winnie held Laura in her arms and looked at Annie with determination. “I believe in my child; she won’t lie. There’s someone else who’s lying.”

Annie hugged Mandy just as tightly. “Ms. Yale, my child doesn’t lie either. If she’s lying, I’ll kneel to you.”

The hotel manager approached with a phone and then opened an app to show them the hotel’s surveince footage. “Please take a look.”

The hotel’s surveince camera had audio recording capability.

They could hear what was being said.

The group gathered around to check the footage.

They witnessed Laura darting around like a monkey, as if transforming herself.

Mandy followed closely behind andunched a few attacks at Laura. Throughout the period, she swing her fists through empty air several times.

Eventually, she lost her bnce and fell t on her face.

Laura’s hand didn’t touch her at all.

Then, Annie stormed into the scene, forcefully pushed Laura away, and pped her.

The little girl suddenly fell to the ground and knocked the back of her head directly on the ground.

It seemed painful just by witnessing it.

Everyone’s expressions transformed into a vivid spectrum of emotions, and they looked at Annie with profound implications in their eyes.

Annie couldn’t believe it. Her face was drained of color as she watched the surveince footage.

She couldn’t believe that Mandy could have hit someone and then fallen on her own.

She looked up in shock and met Winnie’s and Antonio’s stormy gaze.

They looked at her coldly and said in unison, “It seems that you’ll really have to kneel, Mrs. Zimmerman.”

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