Chapter 15: Bane
Amelia looked through him and kept moving. She searched around for Ethan.
Yet that drunkard decided to keep at her. He tugged along all tipsy, trying all his might to keep talking to her.
Amelia finally couldn't take it much longer. She growled back at the man, "May I please ask you to have some respect and stop following me around?"
That did stun the drunkard for a second, but he started smiling obscenely again right after that.
"Woah. Babe's got quite the temper. That's sexy,"
as he said that, he started to reach out for Amelia's face.
Amelia dodged that. She was already furious, "What do you want? I'm calling the cops if you keep at it."
"Woah there... Haha. W-we're all out here for some good fun if I do say so myself... I ain't done nothing, eh? You want the cops here? Atta girl..."
As he mumbled on, he started moving closer. People started closing in, trying to see what was going on.
"I thought we had a deal on going back to mine. N-now you're hitting the road yaself. Come back here, little darling."
"What? I don't even know you. What was that all about?"
Amelia tried to leave him, but curious people blocked her way. Then, someone spoke up,
"Hey. Isn't that a Harper?"
That made Amelia even more embarrassed. The last thing she wanted was to have a drunkard tagging behind her at such a spot while having everyone know who she was.
"Woo-hoo. Ain't that so? I always thought she was just a naive girl, but lord knows this is what she's all about. No wonder they got her like that on their family feast the other day."
As she listened to all the comments, her mood went for the worse. How could they be like this? She was already deprived of everything, and they still had to blame her like that.
Amelia looked at the chattering people around her. She tried explaining, but she knew nobody would listen. It wouldn't be necessary to explain everything to all of them, either.
"What's this all about?"
A lady among the spectators mumbled to herself,
"Is that her? How come?"
Amelia froze there, feeling utterly offended. There was no longer a way out of that anymore. An entire crowd was all around them.
"Make way. Make way."
The lady pushed her way to Amelia and asked, "Are you alright, miss?"
The drunkard glanced at the lady and started to smile even brighter.
"Tee-hee. Another one. N-now I've got two. It's my lucky day."
Amelia looked up at the lady and said in awe, "You don't even know me. You don't have to put yourself through all this, you know."
"I don't have to?
This is my cousin's spot. There's no way I can ignore this," she thought.
"Yeah. I'm Rosetta Jones..."
Before she could finish, the drunkard had already started walking at them. Rosetta saw him coming, so she caught the chance to smash him in the head with a bottle. Blood started oozing out.
The drunkard covered his head and pointed at her, "Are you outta your mind? How dare you pick on me?"
"Yeah, I wish I could kill you with that blow. That would've been a major contribution to the world."
Amelia saw that she still held on to that bottle, so she tugged on Rosetta.
Rosetta smiled at her and went back to staring the drunkard down.
"Do you need the hospital? Or shall we keep this up?"
She said so like a superwoman helping out an innocent citizen.
All the racket there caught the manager's attention.
"What's going on?"
"Nah. We've got a scoundrel around here. I'm just here to bring justice."
By that time, Ethan also got back. He rushed in and asked Amelia, "Are you alright? Did you get hurt?"
"I'm alright," Amelia replied while looking at Rosetta worriedly.
Ethan then got the chance to take a good look at that superwoman. The sight of her gave him a shock.
"It's her."
When Ethan got the news, he was already furious. Nobody dared go against him, nor his subordinates who had been working for him for years. He squinted at the manager, and the manager immediately got him.
"Please come with us, miss. We'll take over from here since this happened at our place."
"He's the one who ran around, harassing innocent ladies, and I'm the one who's taken away, eh? Do you have any idea who I am? I know your boss."
Rosetta stared at the staff. Meanwhile, the drunkard was already taken away.
"We do have to get both sides of the confrontation to understand what was going on."
Rosetta looked nonchalantly at Amelia and saw a man holding her. She could not see the man's face, so she didn't give it a second thought, "Off you go. I'll go with them."
"Hey..."
Before she could say anything else, Rosetta stepped away with the staff.
"Should we go with them as well? All this started because of me, after all,"
Amelia looked at Ethan with much guilt and worry.
Ethan smiled at her, "Don't worry. She'll be just fine. Now, let's get something to eat."
Amelia sure was worried, but she knew Rosetta would be fine. Plus, there was nothing more she could do, so she nodded and went back to the table with Ethan.
"So, was it you that went after the lady?"
As someone patched the drunkard up, he was taken to a quiet spot.
"Now, who the hell are you guys?"
Looking at the squad of fully-armed ape-like men around him, he knew he got himself into bigger trouble than he could handle.
The squad looked at each other and started a full round of beating. Only after a good while did they come to a full stop again.
"You should be glad you didn't put your hands on her, or you'd be done for,"
one of the squad members said so peacefully, but it felt like regards from hell.
"Did... did you mean that Harper girl? Who..."
the drunkard was too weak to say anything after the sound beating. Before long, he fainted.
"Wait. Did he just die on us?"
"Nah, he's fine. Boss told us to give him a good scare, so we'd be done for if we just killed him here."
"Get his men to pick him up. Don't compromise our identity. Move."
Meanwhile, Ethan and Amelia were at the restaurant.
"How do you like it? Try this."
"This is fantastic. But what about Rosetta..."
"Don't worry about her. She's already home."
"How did you know?"
Amelia stared at this man in front of her. She somehow felt that he wasn't like what met the eyes, but she couldn't tell why.
"I was only guessing. She didn't do anything wrong, after all. Nobody can charge her with anything."
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