Carlos pulled out his phone, pressed some buttons, and put it back in his pocket.
"I shouldn't have mistreated you in the past. I shouldn't have threatened you with your kid. But I didn't abort your kid, so please forgive me," James pleaded, looking at Debbie with a hopeful expression.
When he had finished, Debbie stared at him with daggers in her eyes. "James Huo, because of you, Carlos and I had been separated for three long years. Do you think that weak, insincere apology could make up for the happiness that had been missing for three years? Not good enough!"
James swallowed hard and continued, "I shouldn't have let Stephanie masquerade as Carlos' girlfriend after he lost his memory. I was a fool back then. I swear I won't do it again. If you let me go, I'll leave Y City forever with Stephanie and never appear before you—"
"Stop it!" Debbie yelled. She couldn't stand to listen to James' sniveling and hypocrisy any longer.
Carlos pulled her into his arms and kissed her head to comfort her. Then he turned to James, who was still kneeling on the ground, and said coldly, "James Huo."
James feebly raised his head.
"Let you go? Well, that's never gonna happen," Carlos said menacingly.
"How could you break your word!" James shouted defiantly.
Carlos growled through gritted teeth, "Did I say that I'd let you go after you apologized?"
Carlos then took Debbie's hand and led her to their car.
Once they got in, Carlos called out to Niles, who was still packing his first-aid kit. "If you're not getting in, we'll be leaving!"
Niles raised his head to look at Carlos with his eyes as wide as saucers. Then he quickly grabbed the box, picked up the loose bits of medical items lying around, stuffing them into his pockets and ran towards the car. "Carlos Huo! Is this how you repay me? Don't forget it was me who just saved James' life! If it weren't for me, he'd be dead right now!"
Niles threw the medical box into the car and dived into the passenger seat just in time before the car drove off.
Ignoring his complaints, Carlos asked, "How's his health condition? How many years does he have left?"
Niles buckled himself up and answered, slightly out of breath, "He has nothing wrong but high blood pressure. He's probably got at least another twenty years in him, though what you've done to him recently will undoubtedly have some effect on his lifespan."
After pondering for a moment, Carlos told Debbie, "I'll have Dixon send you all the proof of the crimes that James and Stephanie had committed. You can do whatever you like to them."
James and his men must be dealt with as soon as possible. Otherwise, Debbie's safety would be in constant jeopardy.
"Okay!" Debbie replied. By then, James had knelt before her and apologized twice. And the evil man had been punished. That was something to cool her anger. Now she was ready to take the next step—sue James.
Carlos had his men take James to the Huo family's old house and asked him to reflect on himself. In fact, he was placed under house arrest.
As soon as Debbie received all of the evidence against James and Stephanie, she had perused it and then forwarded it to Xavier.
Debbie thought the right thing to do was hand all the evidence over to the authorities and let the law punish them accordingly.
As soon as Debbie reported it to the police, they arrested James. The evidence was conclusive, and there was no use for him to try and deny it.
Debbie postponed all of her work, and her entire attention centered on James' case. She wanted to make sure that he would rot in jail and never be released again.
She exposed what James had done in the past four years on the Internet, and even posted the DNA test results online proving that Evelyn was Carlos' daughter. She accepted an interview of a tell-all where she told the reporters what James had done to her while she was still pregnant with Evelyn.
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