Chapter 139: Chapter 139: Turning Defeat into Victory
Miss Hope Williams was no Holy Mother. She plotted to slander her and now hoped to escape unscathed. As if that would happen.
Mia Fuller was taken aback, clearly not expecting Hope Williams to be so incessantly nagging.
Mia Fuller forced a smile, her complexion souring, “That won’t be necessary, perhaps it’s in the room. I’ll go back and look for it, no need to bother Sister Hope. Weren’t you all preparing to leave? Let see you out.”
Hope Williams smiled coyly, turning her head to look at Waylon Lewis, whose expression was unfriendly. “Are we in a hurry to leave?”
Waylon Lewis looked down at her, “Not in a hurry.”
“Listen, your Brother Waylon isn’t in a hurry, so naturally, I’m not either. I should help to the end, and of course, I want to help you find it.”
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Mia Fuller knew all too well just how “kindhearted” Hope Williams was.
She always felt an uneasy restlessness within her, and her reason told her she should stop looking and put an end to this matter.
“It’s really not necessary. The Fuller house is so large; looking for a necklace is like finding a needle in a haystack. It’s too much trouble for you,” Mia Fuller said while standing in place. “I’m feeling a bit unwell, so I’ll go rest for a bit.”
After speaking, Mia Fuller reached out to take her purse back from the hands of the servant.
“Miss Fuller,” Hope Williams called out, stopping Mia Fuller.
Mia Fuller’s hand trembled, and her purse fell straight to the ground.
Hope Williams saw that Mia Fuller was startled and smiled apologetically, “I’m sorry, Miss Fuller, for frightening you.”
As she spoke, Hope Williams personally crouched to pick up Mia Fuller’s purse.
Mia Fuller’s purse had no zipper, and quite a few things fell out—lipsticks, costics, a phone, and there, half hanging out, was… a sapphire necklace!
Mia Fuller’s hand trembled violently, her complexion turned deathly pale.
“Isn’t that the sapphire necklace? How is it in Miss Fuller’s purse?”
“My God, what’s going on here?”
“Right, wasn’t it missing? How did it end up in her own bag?”
The necklace was in Mia Fuller’s purse.
Hope Williams picked up the necklace and calmly stood up, looking at Mia Fuller and asked, “Miss Fuller, is this the necklace you lost?”
Mia Fuller’s complexion went from pale to paler. What was going on, how could it possibly be in her own purse? She was certain she had put it into Hope Williams’s purse, how could it have ended up in hers?
What exactly was happening?
Mia Fuller’s face was a picture of disbelief.
“Miss Fuller?”
“To think after all this ti, it was in her own purse. What is this, so kind of joke?”
“Yes, Miss Fuller, isn’t this going too far? In your own purse, yet you insisted it was in Miss Williams’s purse.”
“Miss Williams has been wronged too cruelly this ti.”
“Miss Fuller, you should apologize to Miss Williams; you’ve gravely misconstrued this.”
Mia Fuller’s fingers trembled. She looked up at Hope Williams, whose lips still held a trace of a smile.
From the start, she was calm and collected as if she was controlling everything. So she knew all along there was no necklace in her own purse.
Then when did she put the necklace into her purse? Mia Fuller thought carefully, it could only have been when Hope Williams had approached her at the doorway.
So she had seen through everything all along and was just playing along!
That despicable woman, she had truly been careless.
Mia Fuller was stunned for a few seconds before saying, “I… I might have put it in the purse and forgot about it.”
“Is that so?” Hope Williams looked at her and spoke lightly, “If I rember correctly, a mont ago your family’s servant said she had put the necklace back in the room before the banquet began.”
Miss Fuller had been entertaining guests in the banquet hall since the beginning of the banquet, right? If I’m not mistaken, you only went back to the room with once, just that one ti. That was your chance to put the necklace in my bag, wasn’t it?
I left the room with you half an hour ago. Not counting the ti we just spent arguing, let’s say it took the ti you put the necklace in my bag, plus the ti it took for to change my clothes and co downstairs, then the ti you stopped —that’s less than ten minutes. How co? You forgot all about putting the necklace in your own bag in just ten short minutes?
Hope Williams sneered, “Then, as a doctor, I sincerely suggest Miss Fuller visit a neurologist to see if she’s developed amnesia?”
Everyone turned their gaze toward Mia Fuller.
Mia Fuller’s face turned pale, looking extrely unsightly; she took a step back.
If you think about it carefully, the motives here beco clear.
Mia Fuller accompanied Hope Williams back to her room and placed her own necklace in her own bag. She couldn’t have forgotten such a recent event, so she was framing Hope Williams for theft.
Why would she falsely accuse Hope Williams?
Hope Williams had done nothing to her, had she?
No, Hope Williams was the woman by President Lewis’s side, and everyone knew Mia Fuller had a crush on Waylon Lewis.
So Mia Fuller frad Hope Williams because of Waylon Lewis.
I see.
“Enough already, it’s a real case of a thief shouting ‘catch the thief.’ Miss Fuller really knows how to play.”
“Who could have thought, huh? Treating us all like fools, and in the end, she’s the one who’s embarrassed.”
Mia Fuller raised her eyes to look at Hope Williams, feeling a chill throughout her body. The mocking voices around her made her feel utterly ashad.
Hope Williams looked at her with a raised eyebrow and a faintly mocking smile, not saying anything else, as if she had really just wanted to help her find the necklace.
Hope Williams turned to Waylon Lewis, “Now that Miss Fuller’s issue is resolved, let’s go ho. Luke and Willow might start worrying if they can’t see us.”
“Okay.”
Waylon Lewis didn’t spare anyone else a glance, naturally wrapping his arm around Hope Williams as they left the banquet hall.
Wyatt Lewis, having clearly seen through the situation, cast a glance at Mia Fuller, chuckled disdainfully, and followed Waylon Lewis and Hope Williams out.
Mia Fuller clenched her hands tightly, the whispers and stares from those around her making her feel utterly ashad.
The elevator doors slowly opened, and Waylon Lewis pulled Hope Williams inside. Wyatt Lewis, seeing the doors about to close, hurried over, “Hey, brother, I haven’t gotten on the elevator yet.”
Waylon Lewis had no intention of waiting for Wyatt Lewis.
Wyatt Lewis watched the doors close decisively and pitilessly, and muttered an expletive under his breath.
“Why didn’t you wait for Wyatt? Is that how you act as a brother?”
Hope Williams hadn’t missed Wyatt’s speechless and pitiable expression.
Waylon Lewis’s deep eyes focused on her face, and in a low and faint voice, he said, “He’s in the way.”
“In the way? In the way of what?” Hope Williams asked, blinking at him.
Waylon’s long fingers lightly traced her fair face, staring at her lips, he smiled, “What do you think?”
Hope Williams suddenly understood his aning, her eyes flickered and she quickly tried to move away.
But it was too late; the man’s lips had already sealed hers.
Hope Williams’s body trembled violently, wanting to push Waylon Lewis away, but they were now in a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship, and this kind of kissing and hugging was completely normal.
However, Hope Williams beca tense, her heart fluttering uncontrollably.
“Open your mouth, hmm?”
The soone who hadn’t been rejected beca even more confident, his voice tinged with laughter.
A strong arm wrapped around her waist, he leaned in again, deepening the kiss, his tongue unapologetically prying open her mouth, entwining with her tongue, the embrace becoming intensely passionate.
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