After all, since both the father and son of the Gross family had openly made a false charge against him during such an important occasion, Gerald had reason to believe that the injured children were currently under their control as well.
With how quickly and efficiently they had managed to slander and frame him, Gerald could already tell that the father and son were no strangers to using such vile tactics. The fact that they were able to manipulate the Snyders to get rid of him for them only served to prove his point.
“Someone, drag him away and make sure to break all his limbs while you’re at it!” ordered Mr. Snyder in a frigid tone.
Seconds later, over ten Snyder bodyguards stepped forward, prepared to deal with Gerald.
However, Riley quickly said, “Now, hold on a minute! There must be some sort of misunderstanding here! He’s not one to do such things!”
Riley was so sure about this since both she and Cundrie had seen how heroic Gerald had been yesterday when he tried to attain justice. With that in mind, it just didn’t seem possible that he would actually steal or even hurt children!
What more, in order to make things more convenient for them, Riley and Gerald had been sharing their locations with each other from the previous day. As far as she knew, Gerald had been sitting in a Dominoes not too far away from the large hotel for most of the time.
So how could their claims be true? The puzzled Riley was pretty sure that the vendors had gotten things wrong.
“…Hmm? You sound pretty certain about that, Miss Smith. Why is that?” asked Xyonn as he turned to look at her.
“Indeed, Riley. If you aren’t certain about your statement, you’d best not spout nonsense here!” added Snyder as he, too, turned to look at the girl.
“What on earth are you doing, Riley?” asked Mrs. Smith anxiously.
She had already been asking Riley why she had allowed that loser to enter the hall earlier. While that was already embarrassing enough, the humiliation she was now suffering was way worse.
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