Chapter 274 Make the Trashy People Pay
Her tears still spun in her eyes, refusing to fall.
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Jasmine couldn’t stand it. She stepped forward and wrapped Nella in a gentle hug, her voice soft but firm.
“If you can’t smile, then don’t. This isn’t your fault. Alfred is just a really good actor and a total jerk.”
Earlier, when Jasmine went to find Nella, she happened to overhear Zoey bragging about how Marshal had been thrown into a storm drain.
They all knew someone powerful was backing the trash who hurt Marshal.
But no one expected it to be Alfred. To cover up what Eileen had done, Alfred had gone all out.
He ordered the video taken down, not just from Twitter, but from the entire internet.
That kind of cleanup didn’t just cost money. It took real power, real connections.
And honestly, there were only a handful of people who could pull that off in this city.
Nella stayed in Jasmine’s arms for a long time without speaking.
After a while, her breathing steadied. Her face slowly returned to its usual calm.
When she turned and walked away, Jasmine grew worried and followed her.
“Nella, where are you going?”
“The Security Department.”
Nella only had a blurry dashcam clip. It didn’t clearly show Zoey’s parents.
But earlier, in the waiting area, Zoey had admitted out loud that Eileen was the one who threw Marshal into the storm drain. That confession had been caught on the security cameras.
Craystan didn’t have a pet protection law, but it did have strong laws protecting private property.
Marshal had been a stray Nella picked up, yes-but in Craystan, a pet’s value wasn’t judged only by the price paid to buy them.
Other factors mattered too.
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That included how much the owner spent raising the pet-vet bills, food, toys, and daily care.
Just Marshal’s medical costs alone had already reached the level needed to count as criminal damage to property.
And after the Keywood Group’s PR team went public about Marshal, he had become a small internet celebrity.
That gave him commercial value as well.
“All of that counts,” Nella said coldly. “And I’m suing Eileen.”
There was a dark edge in her gaze.
Jasmine had known Nella for years. She had never seen her look this fierce.
It was clear; Nella was truly furious.
“I support you,” Jasmine said without hesitation. “You should sue her.”
Nella nodded. After getting the security footage, she went straight to the Traffic Department.
Honestly, it wouldn’t have been hard to trace who dumped Marshal that day.
Checking the traffic cameras along the route would have done it.
But back then, the video was wiped too fast. Too clean. It made Nella realize the other side had serious influence.
The Traffic Department wouldn’t risk offending powerful people over one dog.
And she didn’t want to drag Alfred into it either.
So even though her heart ached, she swallowed her
anger.
But now she knew the truth. This was Alfred’s doing, and that changed everything.
She was still Mrs. Keywood. And she planned to use that title. She would push back and see how Alfred liked it.
After all his careful public relations work, would he really want rumors spreading about a CEO protecting his other woman while turning against his wife?
The video of Marshal being thrown into the storm drain had already sparked outrage online.
Alfred wouldn’t even protect Zoey when the Keywood Group’s stock price was at risk. Would he really protect Eileen?
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