Filed to story: A Second Chance with My Billionaire Love
Just as Flossie was about to call out to her children. Chase brought them over.
“Adie, Abby, you both came at the right time! This man that you repeatedly claimed to be good… I’ll let you see his true colors!”
Aiden and Abigail blinked their big, innocent eyes and immediately jumped to Mr. Q’s defense.
“Mommy, you must have misunderstood Daddy Q! He’s the most gentle and kind person I’ve ever met besides Daddy Liam! How could he be a bad guy?”
“Abby is right!” Aiden said as he rubbed his chin, a serious expression on his face. “I introduce Mr. Q to you as a husband candidate after careful consideration. You may not believe in my sister’s judgment, but you must believe in my intelligence.”
“Well…” Flossie was momentarily speechless.
Disregarding everything else, Aiden’s intelligence was truly unbeatable.
Anyone who passed his assessment was either a super intelligent person who could beat Aiden, or genuinely a good person.
Currently, Mr. Q didn’t seem like a good person at all. That meant his intelligence must be extremely high to have the two little children be so obedient to him.
“It doesn’t matter if you don’t believe me. Once I kick down this door, you’ll understand my good intentions.”
Flossie didn’t want to keep going around in circles and decided to let the facts speak for themselves.
Tightening her fists, she stretched her legs and gathered all her strength before fiercely kicking the door.
As she kicked down the door, she gestured for the two children to back away.
“Back up a little, you two. I don’t know how depraved this villain is. There may be something inappropriate behind this, so it’s best to stay back than risk getting traumatized by anything here!”
The two children were a little scared after hearing her words, and they hid behind Mr. Q and cautiously peeked around him to stare at the door.
Embarrassingly, Flossie attacked the door for a long time, but it didn’t even budge a single inch. She was exhausted from her efforts after a while. She couldn’t understand why, as it was only a small wooden door. She should have been able to break it with her strength.
“Are you tired? Do you want to rest for a while?” Mr. Q asked “kindly” as his lips curled up slightly as if he were an outsider detached from this situation.
“Shove that fake kindness away! I can definitely break this door into pieces! ” Flossie shot back and wiped away her sweat as she prepared to exert herself again.
Mr. Q suddenly said coldly, “Perhaps it’s best if you save your strength. This door is made of authentic Zambawi birch wood, which is harder than even iron. Even if you kick non-stop until tomorrow, you won’t be able to damage it.”
“So that’s it!” Flossie exclaimed, then frowned at the man. “You’re really sick, aren’t you? Choosing this kind of wood as a door to ensure that the people inside wouldn’t have a chance to escape. What kind of illegal things are you doing here? Aren’t you afraid of encountering ghosts at night for doing so many bad things?”
Flossie had already imagined a tragic situation of the tortured girls behind this door and was convinced that more than one girl was being held here for torture!
Mr. Q hadn’t refuted any of her accusations either and simply smiled and said, “If you really can’t break it down, you can ask Chase for the key to open it directly.”
“Hah! Drop that innocent act! The evidence of your crimes are hidden inside here. Once it’s opened, your hypocritical act will be up! Do you dare open it?”
“I haven’t done anything wrong, so there’s nothing I wouldn’t dare about it,” Mr. Q replied, then paused before adding, “However, the rule of Carmine Pawnshop is that the restricted area is not a place where one can casually enter. You broke a rule and must be punished.”
Flossie, who was in an extremely stubborn mood right now, said, “If you dare open this door, I’m willing to accept the punishment. I’m not unreasonable, after all.”
Mr. Q turned to Chase and said, “Open the door for her.”
“But boss, isn’t it inappropriate to do so? I’m afraid that guy will go crazy and scare the kids…” Chase trailed off, looking toward the door but making no move to approach it.
At the same time, he also thought Mr. Q was acting strange. Why would he indulge this woman so much and let her take charge of the situation like this?
“Hah! Look at that! You’re guilty, aren’t you? I told you something unusual is going on here!”
After hearing Chase’s words, Flossie became even more confident of her suspicions. She quickly pulled her two children aside and warned them,” Close your eyes first. Wait until I confirm that there’s nothing inside there that’s inappropriate for children, and you can open your eyes.”
Then, Flossie turned to Mr. Q and said, “You don’t have to open the door. I’m not interested in your perverted things. As long as you admit before my children that you’re a bad guy and promise to stay away from them in the future, that’s enough.”
Flossie had considered many things and was worried that the pervert would attack indiscriminately if he were exposed, so she planned to take her children away before figuring out how to save whoever was inside the room.
Mr. Q ignored her and ordered Chase again, “I said to open the door. Didn’t you hear me?”
“Um…”
Even though Chase was visibly unhappy, he didn’t dare disobey a direct order from his boss. He pulled out the key and opened the door.
“Watch out!” Flossie stepped back instinctively with her two children.
However, there was no movement inside the room for a long time.
“Don’t hide anymore. You’ve been clamoring to come out, so come on out and let Miss Ellsworth see how ‘bad’ our boss really is,” Chase said, calling out into the room.
The lighting inside the room was poor, and it was impossible to see what was happening. Still, there was no movement even after Chase had spoken.
Then, Mr. Q spoke in a cold and threatening tone, ‘Come out!”
Only then did a woman cautiously appear.
The woman was dressed plainly, and her hair was messy. She was thin, and her sunken eye sockets made her look like a skeleton. However, she was much more presentable than Flossie had imagined.
“W-who… are you?”
Flossie felt that the woman was a little familiar.
“You can leave now if you want, but don’t come crying to us for help when you have nowhere to go!” Chase said as he glared at the woman angrily, feeling both pity and fury at her.
“I remember now! You’re that con artist I met before!” Flossie exclaimed, pointing at the woman as the realization struck her.
The woman looked at Flossie and then lowered her head. Choking back tears, she said, “I’m sorry, Mr. Q. I was wrong. Thank you for giving me a chance to turn my life around. I thought about it and decided to continue staying in this room. I don’t want to leave!”
Seeing the woman about to return to the small dark room, Flossie quickly stopped her and said, “This guy must have threatened you, so you’re afraid to resist, right? Don’t be scared. I’ll help you! I’ll make sure he faces legal consequences for his crimes!”
Since things have reached this point, Flossie naturally wouldn’t give up on the chance to expose Mr. Q’s true colors.
“Legal consequences?”
The woman looked up with an incredulous expression.
“Mr. Q is such a good person! How could he have committed any crimes? If not for him, I would have died long ago, and my son would have starved to death. It was my fault for stealing from his pawnshop, but he didn’t punish me. In fact, he saved me!”
“What?!” Flossie looked at the woman in disbelief. She reached out to grasp her shoulders as if trying to give her strength. “I told you, you don’t have to be afraid. He’s a bad person, and I need you to come forward to expose him. Otherwise, who knows what he’d do to my children!”
“But Mr. Q really isn’t a bad person. Although there are a lot of ugly rumors out there about him, they remain nothing but rumors! Those hypocrites tried to slander him… Don’t believe a word they say!”
“But if he’s so good, why did he lock you up in this small, dark room? Are you a masochist?!”
“Um…” The woman hesitated to speak as if she had difficulty expressing her thoughts.
“If you’re in any trouble, just let me know. I’ll shoulder the consequences for you. But if you insist on protecting a bad person, then I won’t care about you!”
Flossie was a little angry when she saw how the pitiful woman so quickly shouldered the blame when she’d done nothing wrong.