Female Novel
Chapter 368
Chapter 368 You Were Scamming Me All Along
Alex lunged forward to pull Maggie and away from danger.
Just as the falling television was about to crush her legs, she found herself pulled into Alex’s embrace.
A horrible crunch resonated through the air as the glass from the screen shattered into tiny pieces. Itsplastic casing did not survive the impact too.
A shard of glass flew across Maggie’s fine legs. It drew a long red line across her calf that bledcopiously, dripping onto the floor.
“Ah!” Maggie shrieked, unable to bear the sudden pain. Her legs gave way. If it weren’t for Alex, shewould have fallen.
Alex hurriedly stooped to examine her injury. After he had stopped the bleeding, he asked, “Ms. Grant,do you have any antiseptic creams in your house? Either hydrogen peroxide or any alcohol-basedsolution will do. I’ll also need some band-aids.”
Maggie was about to snap at him for touching her without her consent, but she restrained herself. If itweren’t for Alex, the consequences would be dire.
Soon, Warner appeared with a first aid kit and deftly disinfected her wound with hydrogen peroxide andapplied a band-aid onto her cut.
Maggie shot an accusing glare at Noah, who looked very pale. “What is the meaning of this, Mr.Carter? If you don’t give me a reasonable explanation today, you can forget about going anywhere everagain.”
Obviously, she had long since rescinded her trust in Noah. Warner, who pulled up Noah by the collar,menacingly shared her sentiment. “You better tell us what exactly you did to Ms. Grant, or I’ll pummelyou to death where you stand.”
Noah looked mournfully offended. “I did nothing. I just conducted a Geomancy ritual for Ms. Grant tochange the unfortunate state of her current fortunes…”
“Oh, so this is change?” Warner lifted his hand and brought it across Mr. Carter’s cheek in a ringingslap. “Or is it sabotage? You better spit out immediately. Who sent you to set up Ms. Grant?”
Maggie’s expression darkened immediately. Warner’s suspicions of Mr. Carter set off various alarmbells in her head. More than once now, her grandfather had said he wanted her to be his heir as theleader of the Bay family. In hindsight, her male cousins were more than likely upset with the decision.They probably sent Mr. Carter to deal with her. It all made perfect sense now.
Mr. Carter was very close to peeing his pants. “Please be wise in your judgment, Ms. Grant! No onesent me to harm you!”
For all of his other flaws, Mr. Carter was not an idiot. He was well-aware of how these high-profilefamilies operated. If someone had truly directed him to harm Maggie, he was sure that he would not bealive to witness the aftermath.
“Ms. Grant, it looks like this fellow is hellbent on not telling the truth. Do I have your permission to breakhis fingers one by one?” Warner asked.
Noah felt his heart slam around in his chest wildly, Warner had a certain gleam in his eyes that left nodoubt that he could deliver on that threat. Noah legs trembled. “Ms. Grant! I’m innocent, I swear to godthat no one was directing me.”
Maggie snorted, “Mr. Carter, I’m still waiting. Don’t blame me if I have to resort to other more creativemethods to get it.”novelbin
Sinking to his knees with a loud thump, Noah knelt. He started sobbing and blubbering as he spoke,“I’m sorry, Ms. Grant! I should’ve been honest, but the truth is, I’m not the Master of the Mountain of theBeasts! I was desperately in need of money, so I impersonated him. Look, I’ll return the check you justgave me. Please, let me go!”
“What? You’re a fraud?” Warner made his frustration known by slapping Noah a few more times. Hewas furious with himself for falling for Noah’s deception and putting Ms. Grant in harm’s way. Theb*stard deserved to die.
Maggie was dumbfounded and angry at herself as well. She was a well-educated lady of the Grants,but she still fell for a hat trick of some random conman pretending to be a master geomancer. If word ofthis got back to the other members of her family, they would laugh at her.
“You dared to scam me?” Maggie’s slender frame shook with every word, making her ample bosomheave up and down rhythmically.
“Ms. Grant!” Noah wailed piteously, “I was wrong. Please, just let me go!”
He suddenly threw himself at Alex’s feet and groveled repeatedly. “Please save me, Great Master! F’llgive you however much money you want!”
With one look, the latter predicted his predicament. Hence, Mr. Carter concluded Alex was the realMaster Geomancer here, and the only one who could save him now.