Chapter 61

The woman beneath Hansel struggled desperately. "Let go of me! Someone, help!" she cried.

Lucy's heart surged with excitement. This was exactly what she had envisioned.

"Celine, I can't believe you were having an affair here! I'm so disappointed in you!" Lucy exclaimed.

"Is that really Celine? How shameless!" someone in the crowd murmured.

Wayne and Hazel, standing in the corner, watched the scene unfold with detached assessment. They couldn't care less about Celine; she was nobody to them.

"Mom, Celine is a disgrace to the family. We should disown her!" Wayne commented coldly.

Sonia seemed to agree.

Just then, the woman beneath Hansel escaped his grasp. Her tear-streaked face became visible.

"Mom, Dad, it's me! Please help me! Someone, please help me!"

Wayne and Hazel froze. Their eyes widened in shock as they recognized the woman. It wasn't Celine, but Tracy!

"Oh gosh, Tracy!" Hazel screamed, rushing forward to pull Hansel off her daughter. "Let go of my daughter!"

Wayne also rushed forward and kicked Hansel off Tracy, sending him sprawling to the ground. Hansel groaned in pain. Tracy's dress was torn, revealing her delicate skin. Her face was pale, and she trembled.

Hazel quickly draped her coat around Tracy. "Tracy, how did this happen? What's going on?"

Sonia was equally shocked. "Tracy, what are you doing here?"

Lucy's eyes widened in shock. How could this be? Where was Celine? How had it turned out to be Tracy instead?

Carly gently tugged Lucy's arm, her voice low with disappointment. "Mom, what's going on?"

Lucy was just as confused.

The crowd erupted in whispers: "It's not Celine; it's Tracy!" "Oh my god! Tracy was the one with the man!"

Hazel quickly stepped forward to shield her daughter. "Shut up! My daughter doesn't even have a boyfriend. She would never do such a thing!"

Wayne asked anxiously, "Tracy, tell us what happened?"

Tracy burst into tears and clung to Hazel. "Mom, I don't know what happened A maid spilled wine on my dress, so I came upstairs to change. The moment I stepped inside the room, this man suddenly pounced on me and tried to to take advantage of me."

Both Wayne and Hazel were furious. They had high hopes that Tracy would marry someone as successful as Adam. But now, caught in bed with another man, her reputation was utterly ruined. To make things worse, all the most influential figures in Mercity had witnessed the incident.

Wayne turned to Hansel and kicked him hard in the side. "Who are you? Answer me!"

Hansel, still groggy from being drugged, groaned in pain. He immediately turned to Lucy for help.

"Aunt Lucy Aunt Lucy! Please, save me!"

"Aunt Lucy?" Hazel's gaze snapped toward Lucy in disbelief. Her face turned red with fury. "Lucy, is this scumbag your nephew?" she demanded.

Lucy's face turned pale. Her heart dropped.

"I—I can explain," she stuttered nervously.

"LUCY! How dare you bring your nephew here without telling anyone? What on earth were you planning? Today is Mom's birthday banquet. Why did you suddenly invite your nephew?" Before Lucy could reply, Hazel rushed forward and slapped Lucy hard across the face. The sound of the slap echoed throughout the room, stunning everyone.

Lucy was shocked. She immediately touched her stinging cheek. "Hazel Miller, have you lost your mind? How dare you slap me!" she screamed.

I removed the unnecessary quotation marks around some dialogue and corrected several spelling and grammatical errors (e.g., "assement" to "assessment," "sprasting" to "sprawling," "tean" to "can"). I also improved sentence structure and flow in several places. The final paragraph was particularly disjointed and needed significant restructuring.