Chapter 278
Wiping her tears, she glanced timidly at Kieran Argent: “Sir, you’ve misunderstood. This young lady scalded my son first—that’s why we reacted. I meant no harm.”
Alaricka Huston’s eyes flashed with mockery.
Kieran Argent sure knows how to attract admirers—just one meeting turned this spirited woman gentle and sweet.
Director Li nodded repeatedly: “Yes, here’s what happened. The poor little thing kept crying from the burn, nothing could soothe him. We were just discussing compensation properly when this lady insisted on leaving and blamed the child! Honestly, how old is the kid? Already suffering from scalding, yet she refused to let it go. We had no choice but to hold her back.”
The woman sobbed softly: “Exactly. A widow with a child faces such trouble alone… must seem pathetic to you.”
Kieran didn’t speak, quietly listening to them finish talking, the emotions in his eyes deep and heavy.
Alaricka looked into his eyes and didn’t speak.
Seeing that Kieran had no objection, Director Li breathed a sigh of relief: “Mr. Argent, it’s not convenient to talk here, shall we step aside?”
Roschelle saw Kieran’s expression, her heart sinking, and she hurriedly said in a gentle voice: “She’s just a high school student. However much compensation is needed, I’ll pay for her. I hope you won’t make things hard for her.”
Director Li and the woman were both taken aback.
Director Li’s expression changed slightly: “Mr. Argent, Ms. Whitaker, do you know this young lady?”
The moment the words fell, Kieran spoke, his voice deep and mellow: “Alaricka.”
He looked Alaricka up and down.
Her hair was disheveled, the hair tie barely hanging on at the ends, a few strands blown in front of her face. The patient gown that had been fine just hours ago was now pulled askew, the pants of the gown soaked through. The ground around her was trampled into dirty water, and a clearly cracked thermos was casually thrown on the ground, unattended.
Just this morning, Alaricka had been like a stubborn, unyielding hedgehog, but now she seemed like a homeless stray cat, a stray cat that couldn’t even find food.
Pitifully so.
Kieran felt quite displeased.
This feeling was like having a puppy at home; no matter how much it misbehaves, it’s okay; when it makes a mistake, you teach it a lesson so it remembers.
But when it’s outside, no matter what the puppy does wrong, he doesn’t want outsiders to teach it a lesson.
They aren’t qualified.
Alaricka didn’t speak.
Director Li broke out in a fine sweat on his forehead: “Mr. Argent, this young lady is your…”
Roschelle saw the storm brewing on Kieran’s face and thought, ‘This is bad.’ She hurriedly said: “Alaricka is Kieran’s sister. We came this time just to see her. We just didn’t expect something like this to happen.”
Director Li and the woman’s expressions changed in unison, especially Director Li, who turned almost ashen.
Roschelle’s thoughts shifted.
She had originally thought to go along with what Director Li said and sarcastically criticize Alaricka to make her image in Kieran’s mind worse.
But now it seemed that move wouldn’t work. Kieran looked like he might blow up at any moment and stand up for Alaricka.
So now she should go along with Kieran’s intentions.
Having figured it out, Roschelle immediately said: “Sorry, Kieran watched Alaricka grow up. She would absolutely never do such a thing. Could there be some misunderstanding?”
Director Li’s sweat was almost dripping from his forehead. He looked flustered and could only keep trying to read something from Kieran’s expressionless face.