Queen of Wild Cards novel Chapter 156

"They won't. I just checked the headlines, and someone has already leaked the incident online. Millions of people are going to see it by tomorrow.

Even if he does have powerful connections, no one is going to risk public outrage by openly bailing him out right now."

And even if they were released, he had a hundred ways to put them right back behind bars. Anyone foolish enough to protect them would pay a heavy price.

They had dared to terrorize his wife. No umbrella of protection was big enough to save them—he would snap the handle, break the ribs, and tear the whole thing to shreds!

"Really? Let me see." Stella grabbed her phone from the nightstand and opened her news feed. Sure enough, the brawl outside Riverside Grill was already dominating the headlines.

She smiled in approval. "Wow, these journalists work fast. By tomorrow morning, this is going to be massive.

I wonder where they got these photos, though. The angles are perfect—you can only see our backs, not our faces. That's a huge relief."

Julius glanced at her silently. *The person who picked those photos is sitting right next to you, you little fool.*

She switched over to X and let out another impressed hum. "Look, the video is great too. It only shows them surrounding us, but it cuts out right before we fought back. Talk about karma."

The police had ruled that the thugs were detained for instigating a violent assault, while the couple was cleared of any wrongdoing due to clear-cut self-defense.

Deliberately instigating an assault with severe consequences could land someone up to five years in prison.

Given the severity of the attack and the sheer amount of viral outrage the video was generating, whoever was protecting those men definitely wouldn't dare bail them out anytime soon.

Julius reached out and ruffled her hair. He had specifically edited the footage himself; of course, he made sure their faces were hidden.

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