At this time, the fat man defended himself weakly, "You all can't conclude that they are counterfeit by mere words. Do you have any evidence to prove it?"
In fact, Mr. Stone's job in ordinary days was to take action against those commercial fraud. This instance, he had made up his mind to deal with this fat man, "Two thousand dollar is not a small sum of money. No one would like to be scammed. For the sake of fairness, you should remove your shoes so that I can verify them for you on the spot here. If they are really genuine products from premium brand, I will pay you two thousand dollar. What do you think?"
"Mr. Stone..." Amelia immediately gave him a disapproval look as soon as she heard him saying that he would pay for her.
Mr. Stone waved at her in order to gesture her that she needed not to involve herself in this.
When the fat man heard that Mr. Stone wanted him to take off his shoes, he immediately contended, "I won't take them off. Who knows what will you do with my shoes?"
Mr. Stone stared directly into his tiny eyes which were forming into two narrow lines across his excessively fat face. He spoke in overboard manner, "I just want to conduct an experience in verifying their genuineness. All you need to do is hand over your shoes to me. I will use my finger to scrap on the sole of the shoes several times. If nothing happened to the shoes, then certainly they are genuine. However, if your shoes cannot withstand my scrapping, this will only prove that your shoes are in fact counterfeit."
Standing next to Mr. Stone, Leo began to speak right at this time, "Sir, you have to reconsider whether your shoes are real or not. Although we don't sell shoes, we have a lawyer that can easily sue for you defamation, blackmail and scam after today's incident."
Hearing that, the fat man trembled a little.
Although he had absolute advantage in size, after all he was outnumbered by them. Moreover, everyone in front of him seemed to own high status and power which made him frightened. He then said, "I'm unfortunate enough to come across with you bullies! I don't want the money anymore!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the fat man ran away from the scene defeatedly. His figure was as round as a ball which made his running figure inexplicably entertaining.
Amelia shook her head and looked away. She then
said to the group of handsome men behind her, "Thank you."
Mr. Stone smiled, "There's no need forthat. It's my honor to serve our beautiful Mrs. Hopper."
The remaining of them grinned, "Yes! Don't be so polite with us! That fatty was quite funny. We're all entertained."
Staring at Amelia's pitiful face, Leo suggested in a gentleman-manner, "Mrs. Hopper, why don't we all stay here with you and wait for Mr. Patrick? No one will dare to bully you now."
Amelia was stunned and quickly replied, "No, there's no need forthat!"
"Mrs. Hopper, you should agree with it. It must be Kaiden isn't fierce enough to scare away the bullies, that's why the fatty managed to take the opportunity to bully you! If you have all of us with you, then things will be different..."
"F*ck off!" Kaiden was obviously triggered by Leo's words. He gave him a forceful kick furiously.
Leo covered his ass and scolded Kaiden for being shameless, "How dare you to attack from behind? If you're a man, you should challenge me in front of me!"
Watching them fighting against each other playfully, Amelia's depressive mood lightened a little.
She took a deep breath and said to the men in front of her, "Guys, thank you for your help. I'm fine now. I don't want to further take any of your time. Please feel free to leave and you guys really don't have to waste your time here with me."
Kaiden straightened his now messy collar and let out a scornful laughter, "Hear it guys? She is chasing you guys home."
"Mr. Wright!" Amelia pouted. She turned around and stared at his handsomely evil face as if she was blaming him for exposing her intention.
Leo and the rest of the men were unmoved by his sarcasm. Leo pointed at Kaiden and teased him back, "Hahaha! You speak as if she had not chased you away too!"
Kaiden curled his lips and said, "So what? I like to stay right here to accompany her. You guys can f*ck off now!"
The group of men exchanged look at each other in dismay. Eventually someone said, "How about we leave first?"
They had been playing around for quite some time. Supposedly Patrick would have arrived with his car at any time soon. Without further procrastinating, they turned to speak to Amelia, "In that case, Mrs. Hopper, we will go back first. See you soon."
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