The scene instantly fell silent. A few seconds later, I heard gasps from the crowd. “What a twist!”
“So, it was Fiona who was the kept woman? How did her mom say it was Chloe?”
“Fiona lied, I guess. All that ugly talk she made earlier, turns out it was about her own daughter.”
Fiona bit her lip, clenching her jaw, almost wanting to bury her face in the ground. Mrs. Rhodes was utterly stunned, only reacting after a long moment. “Nathan, what are you doing? Are you mistaking someone else? The one who messed around with you was
Chloe!”
Nathan looked up at her. “Who’s Chloe?”
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Chloe!”
Nathan looked up at her. “Who’s Chloe?”
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Under the police’s questioning, Nathan directly admitted to his past with Fiona. The two had met because Mrs. Rhodes often went
to chat with Nathan’s mother. At the time, Nathan’s ex–wife had just gotten pregnant, and Nathan felt bored, so he started talking
to Fiona. Fiona asked him for money, and Nathan jokingly said he’d pay her a hundred bucks to sleep with him, and Fiona agreed.
Nathan said with a helpless expression, “This was all agreed upon in advance, the price was set. It was supposed to be a sugar
daddy thing, but I slept with her less than four times before I found out she was sleeping with other men too. I found it disgusting,
so I stopped seeing her. Later, she told me she was pregnant and insisted I pay for her abortion. I was afraid she’d tell my
ex-wife,
so I took her to a clinic for it.”
Hearing this, Mrs. Rhodes was furious. She slapped Fiona across the face. “You goddamn slut! You sold yourself for a hundred buc-
ks?!”
Fiona, clutching her face, trembled all over. She couldn’t hold back any longer. “It’s because you never gave me living expenses! I had no money, that’s why I did it!”
Mrs. Rhodes often boasted about Fiona being sensible, smart, and beautiful, and how she never took money from home for colle-
ge, sometimes even giving money to the family. As Fiona’s best friend, I knew how desperate for money she had been all those
years. Mrs. Rhodes controlled her spending, but Fiona had a taste for luxury. At first, she borrowed money from friends, then from
online loan sharks. Then one day, she suddenly wasn’t short on money anymore. I had thought Mrs. Rhodes had finally had a chan-
ge of heart. Only now did I realize she had resorted to selling herself.
Mrs. Rhodes, upon learning the truth, completely broke down. She began hitting Fiona. “You worthless slut! How dare you disgrace
me and your father!” After she tired of hitting Fiona, she turned on Nathan. “You son of a bitch! How dare you bully my daughter?
This is rape! I’m going to sue you!”
Nathan was also fuming. After his earlier confession, his soon–to–be second wife and her parents had already left, their faces grim.
If the police hadn’t stopped him, saying the matter hadn’t been cleared up yet, he would have chased after them already. Especial
since he had just asked around and realized the root cause was Mrs. Rhodes’s big mouth, he was even angrier. He yelled, “If your
own daughter wants to sell herself, who can stop her?!”
Mrs. Rhodes went mad. “It must have been you who seduced my daughter! She’s such a sensible girl, how could she possibly do
something like that? You lured an innocent girl!”
Nathan’s mother, seeing Nathan being hit, was heartbroken. She stepped forward and shoved Mrs. Rhodes away. “How dare you hit
my son?!”
Mrs. Rhodes screamed at her, “You raised such a menace! You’re no good either!”
Nathan’s mother’s fighting power was off the charts. “You’re a good one, are you? When you were young, you loved to throw yourse-
If at all sorts of men! Your daughter says she’s short on money, maybe she just inherited it from you, can’t live without a man!”
Mrs. Rhodes was beyond furious. She lunged forward, grabbing hair. The two women wrestled in a tangle. It took a long time for
the police to separate them.
Because the matter involved prostitution, they would take both Fiona and Nathan back to the station. But the main issue was still
my case. The officer asked me, “Do you still want to press charges against Nathan for assault?”
Everyone assumed I would let it go now. But I nodded. “Yes, I do. He hasn’t proven he has no connection to me. He only said he had
a connection with Flona, but he hasn’t proven he didn’t cause my abortion. Those are two different matters.”
