"It's all your fault!"
Yvonne panicked instantly. She kept hitting Owen desperately and was completely at a loss.
Lucille had fled at that moment. If she had recorded the whole scene and disclosed it, Yvonne's life would be ruined completely.
"Don't worry, let me think of a way." Owen tried to calm himself down, "Do you have the woman's contact?"
"No, I don't!"
Owen immediately came up with the most common solution, "Go and get it! Let's negotiate with her, we'll buy the video recording from her. What do you think?"
"Alright, alright. I'll think of a way to solve the problem."
Yvonne tried to calm herself down as well.
She definitely couldn't let Franklin know about it. She could only do it through someone else.
After recorded the scene, Lucille took a cab and told the driver to take her to Abby's home.
She was still nervous after getting into the car. She kept looking back, afraid that Yvonne and the others would catch up with her.
If they chased after her, she would be doomed.
Fortunately, she was safe throughout the journey. It suddenly dawned on Lucille that she was pregnant when she got off the car. After paying the fare, she went up the stairs carefully.
Abby, who was a night owl, just got up. She had washed up and was about to get herself some instant spaghetti.
She was glad to see Lucille that she held Lucille in her arms, and chuckled, "My gosh! Baby, you are back. Hurry up, please make me some food. I realize that ever since I have you, I start to dislike the instant spaghetti which has been my favorite for more than 20 years."
Abby was carefree and did not notice the panic on Lucille's face at all.
"Well...Please boil some water as I am going to have one too." Lucille said.
Lucille was feeling uneasy since the moment she stepped into the bar. Her heart was almost coming out of her chest, literally. She had not calmed down yet. How could she be in the mood to cook?
However, she was hungry. Therefore, she could only have some instant spaghetti.
"What did you just say?"
Only then did Abby realize that Lucille was acting weird.
In the past, she had always regarded instant spaghetti as junk food. She even advised Abby not to eat too much. Whenever Abby was too lazy to cook and wanted to get some instant spaghetti, Lucille would make a simple meal for her.
"I...I just went to the Neon Bar..." Lucille said.
"What? What did you do at the Neon Bar? Aren't you worry about the baby?"
Rage surged through Abby when she found out that Lucille had gone to the Neon Bar.
She had only managed to escape, barely alive from that place a few days ago.
"I went to the police station this morning. The police officer said that no one saw me that day as the surveillance was broken. The witnesses they found also told that they saw nothing...Therefore, I..."
"Then you just walk into the lion's den, didn't you?"
Abby said.
"That was initially the case." Lucille spoke while taking out her cell phone. "But I accidentally recorded something important."
She wanted to show Abby the video recording, only to find that she could not turn on her cell phone.
"What's that?"
"Wait... Is my phone broken?"
Lucille fiddled with the cell phone, but the screen remained dark and there was nothing at all.
She was flustered all of a sudden!
She risked her life for the video recording. Her cell phone wouldn't let her down at that time, would it?
"Let me see." Abby grabbed her phone and checked further. She glanced at Lucille with a look of contempt, "Out of battery. What video did you take until you have drained out the battery?"
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