Chapter 68
"Don't go too far." Yasmin was getting angry. How could Pearl bully people like this? "Nori and Mr. Wood just knew each other before, there's nothing else between them. If you don't believe me, you can call Mr. Wood."
Pearl laughed. She didn't actually care whether Nora and Walter had anything going on. She was just here to bully Nora and establish her authority, that's all.
"Ms. Clark, we've already notified Mr. Wood. You'd better go home and handle this. This kind of thing..." The manager was also a bit scared.
Scared that something might happen.
But Pearl wasn't going to let Nora off that easily. "I've kept all these videos. How about I post them online and let everyone see?"
Nora shook her head in horror. "No."
"If you don't want me to post them, you can kneel down and beg me." Pearl wanted Nora to kneel before her like she did five years ago.
In the alley video, they had also forced Nora to kneel.
If Nora didn't kneel, they would kill the child in her belly.
Nora eventually knelt down, humbled into the mud.
"Please." Nora begged Pearl not to post it.
It took five years for the scandal about the real and fake heiress and the reports that ruined her reputation to finally fade away. If Pearl posted it again, it would trigger another wave of online mockery. She didn't care about herself anymore, but Samuel...
She had to protect Samuel.
Nora knew best how terrifying those cyberbullies could be.
When the real and fake heiress incident was exposed, the old house where she lived with Jasper was revealed. Countless people blocked the door, cursing from morning to night, throwing garbage at their house, all kinds of disgusting behavior, and someone even set fire to it in the middle of the night.
"Kneel down." Pearl looked down at Nora from above.
Nora's fingers were terribly numb. She clutched her dress tightly with both hands and slowly knelt on the ground.
But Pearl still wouldn't let her go, smiling as she clicked send. "Oops, I accidentally posted it. Posted it on Twitter."
Everyone at the club took out their phones to search for Pearl's Twitter.
Actually, everyone was curious about what was in the video.
In the video, it was in an alley with poor lighting, damp and messy.
Pearl and several girls brought six or seven guys and cornered Nora in the alley.
Those people laughed wickedly, mocking, speaking rudely, saying the dirtiest words, doing the most disgusting things.
They tried to strip Nora's clothes, beat her, force her to kneel.
All kinds of horrible things, too awful to watch.
Nora knelt on the ground, listening to the sounds coming from people's phones around her, trembling all over.
She thought she had forgotten.
Forgotten everything.
In prison, Nora had applied for MECT treatment so many times, thinking she could forget all the painful memories.
But why did the happy memories become numb, while those painful memories became clearer and clearer?
Even heaven was punishing her.
Punishing her for stealing someone else's life.
"Nora, did you think I would let you off so easily? Walter is my man. You touch him, and you think I'll forgive you?"
Pearl squatted in front of Nora and raised her hand to pat her face, each slap hard.
"Today is the first day your little bastard enters kindergarten. I've already had people send this video to every parent of your son's classmates, so they can see how dirty and lowly the bastard's mother is, seducing wild men, pregnant with a bastard and kneeling to beg for mercy."
Nora numbly looked up at Pearl. Her fingernails had dug into her palms, and the blood at the corner of her mouth had somewhat coagulated and dried.
After a long silence, Nora's hand uncontrollably lifted, grabbing Pearl's collar, her voice trembling. "Samuel is my bottom line. If you touch him... just try..."
All these years, she had compromised and refused to lower herself because she knew she was guilty.
She was atoning.
But that didn't mean she could keep being trampled on mercilessly by these people forever and ever.
Pearl was stunned for a moment. In that instant, she was actually scared by Nora's eyes, that look.
Pushing Nora away hard, Pearl laughed. "A bastard from the slums, and you think he deserves to go to Holy Shield Kindergarten? How did you get that spot? Do you think I'll let your son stay at that school? You don't seem to know that the principal of Holy Shield Kindergarten is my aunt."
Nora's body trembled violently.
The school Michael found for Samuel was Holy Shield Kindergarten.
The best elite school in Emerald City.
"Nora!" From the crowd, Savannah rushed over and hugged Nora in panic. "What's going on?"
Looking up at Pearl, Savannah had already guessed most of it.
With Nora following Walter, what she feared most wasn't Bronte, but Pearl.
When Pearl went crazy, even Bronte was afraid of her.
Nora didn't speak, just kept shaking.
"Savannah." Yasmin was almost crying, handing her phone to Savannah.
Savannah glanced at the video Pearl posted and looked at her angrily. "Just because you have money and power, you can hurt people so recklessly?"
"You're her friend?" Pearl narrowed her eyes.
Nora panicked a bit, afraid of dragging Savannah into this. "No."
But Savannah held Nora's wrist. "Yes, I'm her sister. If you have a problem, come at me."
Pearl looked at the manager with a smile. "Now, can you fire them both?"
The manager was stunned. "I'm sorry."
"I'm the future boss's wife of Mountain Construction Group, Walter's fiancée. I want you to fire two employees, and you're saying sorry to me?" Pearl shouted arrogantly.
The manager was very embarrassed. "Nora has a special status. We need to ask, ask Mr. Wood."
"I'm telling you to kick them both out right now, immediately!" Pearl wouldn't let it go.
Nora stood up, wanting to leave on her own. She couldn't drag Savannah into this.
"Pearl, since when did you become so arrogant?" At the door, Michael's voice was cold as he walked straight over.
Pearl was stunned, seemingly not expecting Michael to be there.
Pearl was still afraid of Michael, speaking softly. "Michael."
David looked at Pearl in shock. The Clark family people really knew how to climb the social ladder.
"Ms. Clark, our Mr. Smith isn't familiar with you." David frowned.
Michael frowned at Pearl, then looked down at the injury on Nora's face. "You hit her?"
Pearl inexplicably panicked, nervously stepping back. What did Michael mean? Helping Nora? "Michael, Nora goes around seducing men. She seduced Walter."
"Watch how you address me." Michael warned in a low voice.
Pearl didn't dare to be so familiar anymore.
Looking down at Nora, Michael frowned and asked, "How do you want to handle this?"
Nora gripped her clothes tightly with both hands, took a deep breath, and looked up at Michael. "Help me call the police."
Michael's gaze was complicated as he squatted in front of Nora. "Have you thought this through?"
"Call the police."
Nora spoke again.