Chapter 34 – One IQ Check Please

Bess quickly dragged the fuming Bella away, “Bella, let's go.”

At that moment, a charming middle-aged woman came over to them. She wore subtle makeup, and because of proper maintenance, her skin was very white. Her body was still beautiful, which made her look like a woman in her early thirties. Compared to Bess whose body was bloated and face was covered with gauze, that woman was distinguished.

Laura!

She used to be Len’s mistress before she married him, but now she looked successful. In turn, Bess used to be Len’s wife, but now her reputation was utterly ruined. Bella could only sigh that friendships and relationships would never last, people in the world were horrible.

Bella was worried to look around, and things never went on well with Laura. She held Bess’s hand tightly and prepared to leave quickly.

“Bess, I just haven't seen you for a while, how could you let yourself go?” Laura looked down at Bess who was bloated and sore. A pleasant feeling emerged in her heart.

Bess tightly grasped Bella’s hand and said gently to Laura. “Just a slight hit, I’m fine. Thank you for asking.”

Bella then pulled her mother’s hand and coldly said, “Mom, why are talking to the dog.”

“Who did you say is a dog?” Laura's face immediately sank, and she snapped at Bella. “Both you and your mother are sluts. Did you forget those photos? Let me help you recall.”

Laura suddenly yelled. “Look at them, they are shameless whores. She not only seduces her ex-husband but also her male neighbour...”

She suddenly took a stack of photos from her bag and threw them to the ground.

They were still at the entrance of the crowded supermarket. When people saw there were photos on the ground, they curiously looked down.

The old ladies and housewives who walked by saw the naughty photos, and they immediately pointed at Bella and scolded her angrily, “How could you be so cheeky? If the upper beam is not straight, the lower one will go aslant as well.”

“Isn’t that the woman involved in that scandal during a wedding ceremony? I used to think it was fake. I didn’t expect it was true.”

“Oh, don’t look at her mother who looks so gross now. She was driven out of her home because of the erotic photos. Otherwise, she would have been a rich woman.”

“Oh, it’s really promiscuous.”

Bella only felt the sights holding vice and disdain surrounding her, like eyes caused more eyes, like spearheads and thrusts. Some people even took out their mobile phones to take pictures and make videos.

She was so angry that her tears streamed out. “It’s not me. I was framed, those photos... are all fake!”

“Who knows whether they are fake or not. As you say, the news on the Internet is also fake. But your fiancé broke the engagement with you because of those erotic photos. So, this must be true.”

The onlookers' tongues were very sharp, which didn’t sound like what the average housewife would say.

Bella was not stupid, and once she heard it, she knew that they were a paid mob. She became alert when she saw Lynn, but did not expect that she would still have been trapped in everything they had arranged.

An ink-coloured Maybach sedan rushed through the crowd and slammed on its breaks.

A slender man got out of the car. He strode forward, followed by ten bodyguards dressed in white that joined him from the crowd. Such a man with a powerful aura immediately caught the attention of everyone.

He didn't walk fast, but every step was imposing. The crowd unconsciously opened a path for him, as if to see who he was walking toward.

Those housewives began to drool.

“So handsome, isn’t he an actor?”

“He looks awfully familiar, but I can't place it. He is not an actor. I know all the superstars now.”

“It seems that he is the Lord of the Sea... Wow, right. Didn’t he host the opening ceremony of a Williams’ hotel a few days ago? Right, it’s him. No wonder he looks so familiar. God, I can’t believe I see the real Lord.”

Charles walked over, and the bodyguards stepped forward to stop people from approaching and taking pictures.

“All the pictures taken should be deleted,” Charles ordered.

“Go away!” He glanced at the crowd around him. His voice was exceptionally light and without emotion, but it made people tremble unconsciously. As if the whole body was surrounded by heavy air pressure, which made it hard to breathe.

Ziv at once added, “You have violated the privacy of Miss Brook. If you do not delete the photos, you will be at your own risk.”

The ten bodyguards strode forward. They grabbed the mobile phones and tossed them to the ground. Some of the mobile phones that had their owners hid were found and smashed, as if every bodyguard had remembered the faces of all the paparazzi.

People saw this and immediately fled, for they could not offend those who had the power and money. They ran away even without claiming the compensation for the mobile phones.

Bella was stunned, Charles like this... seemed not so infuriating.

She just wondered why he was here.

“Go back.” Charles’s eyes indifferently swept at Bella, and she immediately responded. “It is still not eight.”

She promised her mother they would have dinner together.

Charles’s sights stopped at her, and the blue eyes seemed like a pool of water pouring into her. Her heart felt tight, and she looked at her mother quickly. “Mum, I still have work to do, so, I must go.”

She put the vegetables in her mother’s hand and persuaded, “You should eat vegetables, also the steak. You aren’t well, so you must nourish your body. Understand? I will come back to see you when I am free.”

“Ok, go, just go.” Bess was also shocked by Charles’s aura. She was stunned to see the ten men dressed in white that he brought. Who had quickly dealt with all the people and she started rambling.

“Lord? His temperament, his dignity indeed deserved this title.”

Not all people have so many bodyguards with them, and even the bodyguards drove five black roadsters.

This was the first time that Bess saw such an exaggerated scene.

“Oh, no, no,”

The second time. But it had been twenty years since she first saw it.

“Mum, take care of yourself.”

Bella followed behind Charles meekly. She got into his Maybach car with the envied eyes from the distant women.

Charles was serious from the beginning of the drive to the end. Bella shrank beside the door. She didn’t want to look at him. She did not want to irritate him either.

She did not know what to do about Charles, she couldn't leave him, and she had no freedom, no future.

Charles seemed like a black cloud above her head. She couldn’t avoid it, and it could rain heavily at any time.

“Bella, how stupid are you?” Charles suddenly opened his mouth, and his voice was like the day when he had sex with her in the kitchen, full of doubt on her IQ.

Bella kept her mouth closed and did not respond. Her anger that had just settled down in her heart was successfully picked up again.

Charles could always make her mad easily and challenge his self-righteous authority.

“Go in and let Elsa check your IQ.”

The small flame in Bella’s eyes instantly ignited.