Nine Hot Therians and Their Only One Queen novel Chapter 951

Chapter 951 Very Thin

Aria hadn’t caught onto anything strange.

She reached out and steadied Rafael, but the moment her hand closed around his arm, she went still for half a second.

He was thin. Too thin.

Even through the worn, threadbare fabric of his shirt, she could feel the ridge of his bones pressing against her fingers.

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Aria’s brow furrowed without meaning to. Sure, a lowborn male with no combat ability didn’t have an easy life. Still, it was rare to see someone this beautiful let himself waste away like this.

‘Get your footing,” Aria said, releasing his arm.

Rafael answered softly, “I will.”

The instant he found his balance, though, his body wavered again, like he might topple right back over.

The crowd watching the whole scene softened at the sight, almost against their will.

That face of his was simply too deceiving.

Especially now, with his silver hair falling loose and tangled over his shoulders, his pale face still smeared with blood, those pale glasslike eyes shimmering with unshed tears.

He looked exactly like some abandoned creature that had been kicked around one too many times.

It was hard not to feel a pull of sympathy looking at him.

Emma watched the crowd’s reaction unfold without a word.

She kept her gaze steady on Rafael, saying nothing.

Something about this whole thing still nagged at her, though she couldn’t quite put her finger on what.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the standoff, Lange had reached the edge of panic as he watched the tide of opinion turn against

him.

“Ms. Aria!

“Please don’t let him fool you. He really is a thief.”

Sweat beaded across Lange’s forehead from sheer desperation.

“He stole my storage button. I know he did!”

“Do you have proof?” Aria asked, looking at him.

Lange troze for a second.

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Chapter 951 Very thin

“Did you see him steal it with your own eyes?” Aria pressed.

Lange opened his mouth, then closed it.

“No.”

“Did you see him possessing the storage button afterward?”

“No, not that either.”

Lange shook his head again, looking close to tears.

“So…” Aria studied him. “You just have a suspicion.”

Lange’s face flushed red instantly.

“But who else could it have been?”

His voice climbed higher with frustration.

“He’s the only one who bumped into me at the time…”

“That’s still just a suspicion.”

Aria glanced at Rafael beside her.

“Suspicion isn’t proof.”

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Rafael kept his head bowed, his lashes fluttering faintly, the corner of his mouth curving up in the smallest, barely visible way.

Aria really was easy enough to fool.

As long as she hadn’t given up on him, it didn’t matter that he’d failed to get close to Emma tonight.

With Aria on his side, he’d find a way to use her to reach Emma eventually.

“So, what am I supposed to do?” Lange demanded, his eyes reddening with frustration.

He’d never felt this humiliated before.

He was the one who’d been robbed. He was the actual victim here.

Yet everyone around him now looked at him like he was some bully throwing his weight around.

“I’m not lying,” Lange insisted, looking at Aria, then at Emma, his voice cracking with barely contained frustration.

“The storage button my mother gave me is genuinely missing. He’s the one who bumped into me right before it disappeared. Who else could it possibly have been?”

At that, Rafael’s frame swayed again, nearly buckling under him.

Aria reached out instinctively to steady him once more.

Rafael let his head dip forward, tears sliding one by one down onto his pale, trembling hands.

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“Mr. Lange…”

His voice came out so soft it nearly disappeared beneath the murmur of the crowd.

“I understand your standing is far above mine, and I know that ever if I died right here, no one would speak up for someone like

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“But I truly never stole anything from you.”

He lifted his head, those pale glasslike eyes brimming with tears, the red teardrop mark at the corner of his eye glistening even brighter now, soaked in that shimmering wetness

“If I really had stolen something, why would I still be standing here?

“Why wouldn’t I have run?

“All I wanted was to get back the money for my brother’s medicine…”

His voice broke apart completely by the end, barely holding together.

The sight was enough to make more than a few people in the crowd frown with concern.

“He’s right, look at the state he’s in.”

“He doesn’t look like someone with the nerve to steal anything.”

“Lange’s always had a temper. Who’s to say he’s not just bullying someone weaker than him?”

The low murmurs reached Lange’s ears and nearly drove him out of his mind.

“What do any of you actually know?”

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