Chapter 17
ine caressed her fair neck with a sorrowful look on her face.
It wasmon knowledge that her agate ne was auctioned off at 2 million dors by Timothy
last month
The banquet hall was then filled with sighs of distress from the thought that a thief had infiltrated this
ce of nobility.
Immediately, guards took their positions in front of the exits to the banquet hall.
Charlotte couldn''t help but feel a shiver running down her spine. She raised her head and looked
toward the center of the banquet, only to see ine staring back at her with a smirk.
''Oh no!''
Charlotte was quick to realize that something was not right, but she no longer had a chance to flee.
Soon, a burly security guard stood in front of her and looked down at her.
"Miss, hello. Do you have an invitation?"
No one else was asked the same question. Only she was interrogated. ine''s intention couldn''t be
clearer.
Thus, everyone started to look at Charlotte suspiciously.
At that moment, there was nothing else Charlotte could do, so she kept a smile on her face and
opened her bag calmly.
"Found it!"
Before Charlotte couldpletely open her bag, the guards around her snatched the bag from her
grasp aggressively and pulled out ine''s ne.
ine barged her way through the crowd of people hurriedly and got the ne back in her
possession. The expression on her face was a mixture of disappointment and relief, the exact
portrayal of a victim of the situation.
"Miss, you don''t dress nor look like a poor person, so why did you steal the ne?" ine said
while looking at Charlotte with teary eyes.
ine looked at her with unfamiliarity, as though she has never met Charlotte before.
Every guest present was deceived by ine''s skillful acting. However, Charlotte was well aware of
what truly happened.
Only in would be able to pull off such a despicable, self- directed act to frame
Charlotte.
The servant from earlier who was apologizing profusely had now disappeared from the scene.
Charlotte sneered. It seemed that today was not her day and she was bound to be humiliated by
ine.
"If you don''t say anything, I''ll call the police." ine pretended to give Charlotte a chance. However,
she had already secretly instructed her butler to call the police.
Now that Charlotte wasbeled a thief in front of influential families of River City, it would be difficult
for her to turn over a new leaf if she wanted to in the future.
''Charlotte, you''re still too tender to be ying tricks with me.''
"Hold on."
Just as ine was ecstatic from her iing victory, a cold voice interrupted her.
"It''s Shane!"
When the slender figure appeared in the banquet hall, everyone broke intomotion. Shane
Fuller was not just anyone. To be able to meet him on such an asion made people feel like they
struck gold.
The aura emanating from him was noble and indifferent, the image he portrayed was pretty much
too intimidating for people to approach him.
He walked towards Charlotte with no obstructions as if he was a king.
The muscr security guard that was before Charlotte also became nothing but a speck of dust
with Shane''s appearance.
Shane looked around as if he didn''t care about anyone else. In the end, his cold gaze fell upon
Charlotte.
"Did you steal it?" he asked in a calm tone.
"Huh?" Charlotte immediately recognized the man as the higher-up that had approved her job
application.
''Could he have recognized me?'' she thought.
''What would he do to me? Fire me? Ban me from the industry?''
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For a moment, Charlotte''s mind was in a state of chaos.
"I''m asking you a question." Shane frowned slightly. He had never encountered someone bold
enough to zone out in front of him.
Worse still, she did that in such a tense situation.
''This woman must have sh*t for brains,'' he
thought.