Chapter 151 I Dare You

Everything happened in the blink of an eye, without giving anyone much time to react.

Meryl was closest to Anne and saw Lola charging forward unexpectedly. She became highly alert, her eyes fixed on Anne.

Just as Lola was about to crash into Anne, Meryl didn’t think twice. She lunged toward the stone bollard.

Before Anne could trip over the stone bollard behind her, Meryl had already reached it first.

Meryl opened her arms wide and caught Anne in her arms from behind. However, she hit her lower back hard against the stone bollard due to her overbalance or sudden force.

Meryl winced in pain, a cold sweat breaking out across her back.

Ignoring her discomfort, she immediately checked on Anne.

“Anne, are you alright?”

Anne hadn’t fallen thanks to Meryl’s intervention, but her face was pale, and she was clearly shaken.

“I… I’m fine,” Anne said, still shaken, glancing at the stone bollard behind her.

The outcome could have been dire if she had tripped, falling backward while looking up.

She hadn’t planned on keeping the baby, intending to have surgery instead.

But losing the baby due to an accident was a different matter altogether.

If Meryl hadn’t intervened, a severe fall, compounded by her pregnancy, could have left her with serious sequelae.

Anne, trembling with anger, glared at Lola. “You did that on purpose. How dare you?”

Looking utterly startled, Lola stuttered, “I didn’t mean to bump into you. I thought you were going to hit me. I thought…”

Before she could finish, Meryl slapped Lola across the face.

She rushed up, grabbing Lola by the hair, furious. “If anything had happened to Anne, I would never let you off!”

Anne couldn’t intervene herself due to her pregnancy.

Moreover, with Dante present, if Anne had reacted and Dante defended Lola, it would have only made Anne’s situation more embarrassing.

Thus, Meryl was responsible for dealing with the mistress on behalf of Anne.

Lola had been slapped out of the blue and covered her face, glaring at Meryl. “What are you doing? I really didn’t mean to bump her!”

“You didn’t mean to, but you did bump into her, didn’t you? Lola, you know exactly what you were trying to do!”

Now infuriated, Lola retorted, “Anne is fine, isn’t she? How can you just hit me like that? I’m going to call the police!”

“Call the police? Go ahead. I dare you. With your great acting skills, do you still have the nerve to call the police? They wouldn’t buy your act!”

“Dante, they’re ganging up on me again.”

Meryl was unyielding, and Lola had no choice but to turn to Dante for help.

She had been pulled up by her hair and forced to bow her head in front of everyone. She felt it was too humiliating.

Dante’s lips moved as if to speak, but then he caught Chandler’s icy warning glare and swallowed his words.

He knew Lola had indeed bumped into Anne, and he was also shaken.

Fortunately, Anne was alright, and likely so was the baby.

Dante said, “Lola, apologize to Anne, and let’s put this behind us.”

Hearing this, Anne looked at him incredulously.

“An apology and it’s over? Dante, since when do you make decisions for me?”

Dante frowned. “You’re not injured, and Lola got hit by Meryl. Do you really want to keep dragging this out? Anne, you’re not someone who lacks sense.”

Anne’s eyes brimmed with tears as she laughed. “It’s only because Meryl shielded me that I wasn’t hurt. What if she hadn’t been there?

“Dante, you use the idea of being sensible to flatter me, just so we can let this go? I’m carrying your child, remember?”