Chapter 1095
She had no idea why this criminal wasing at her. Maybe he was caught after he broke thew
and felt unjustified, so he wanted to take it out on society and harm others as a form of catharsis?
After all, there were countless people like this. Sometimes, she would read news on the Inte
where she saw innocent victims and felt so sorry for them.
Now, she had joined the club as one of the innocent victims, but fortunately, it was the police station
here, and she had Freddie by his side. Or else, she would probably be in danger already.
On the other side, the plump middle-aged man to whom Freddie pointed the baton didn''t dare to
take another step forward as his expression changedpletely. Instead, he hurriedly came to a
stop and raised his cuffed hands in the air to surrender.
It didn''t ur to him that he would be threatened with a weapon when he just wanted to plead for
mercy. What bad timing!
The police officers quickly caught the fat man from behind, and one of them kicked him in the back
of his knee.
Caught off guard, he fell to his knees with a loud thud, and the officers pinned him to the ground,
pressing his face against the floor and holding him firmly as though they were afraid that he would
escape as he did earlier.
"Stay still and don''t move!" the officers on top of him warned fiercely.
The man couldn''t help the bitter smile on his face as he thought, Move? Can I even move when I''m
in this state?
Opposite him, Freddie rxed and kept his baton away when he saw that the officers had
apprehended the criminal. Finally, he turned to the two officers and reprimanded stoically, "What
were you two doing earlier? Can''t you even hold one person?"
The officers hung their heads and didn''t answer, knowing they were in the wrong. What could they
possibly say? It was their responsibility if a person slipped away while they were holding him.
"This time, I''ll just give you a warning as punishment. If something like this happens again, don''t
me me for transferring you to the traffic department!" Freddie chided, pointing a finger at them.
The officers repeatedly nodded, indicating they wouldn''t make this mistake again. This wasn''t a
perfunctory reply but a sincere one.
As policemen, it was a p in their faces and a humiliation that a criminal was able to escape from
their hands. At the end of the day, they would be aughingstock if they couldn''t even hold a
criminal down.
In order to clean up their act, they would be more alert and wouldn''t make the same mistake the
second time.
"You better not. Keep this in mind." Then, after he scolded them with a grim expression, he spun
around and rxed his expression as he observed Sonia, asking in concern, "Are you alright, Miss
Reed?"
"I''m fine." She released her sped hands that were held nervously against her chest as she smiled
and shook her head. "Luckily, you pulled me aside in time and avoided a tragedy from happening,
Officer Chase. Thank you so much for earlier."
"You''re wee, Miss Reed. This is the police station, so we must protect you when our criminal
almost injures an innocent person. Even if it''s not the police station, as public officials, we have to
protect the public anywhere we are," he said with a salute.
Sonia smiled again and was about to say something when the middle-aged man on the floor
suddenly started shouting, "Miss Reed! Please forgive me and ask Mr. Fuller to let me off, Miss
Reed! I''m really sorry!"
rmed by those yells, she looked down at the man in surprise. "Do you know me?" She was
rtively sure that she had never seen this person before.
The middle-aged man bobbed his head. "Yes, Miss Reed. I''m—"
Before he could finish, something popped up in Freddie''s mind, and he pped his hands together.
Thus, he gestured at the man as he reminded her, "This person is somehow connected to you, Miss
Reed. The police have also heard about the rumors on the Inte today, and this person is the
chief editor of Squirrel Media who was sent here by President Fuller''s men."
Sonia immediately understood who he was as she stared at the middle-aged man on the floor, and
her eyes were no longer confused but cold. "So, you''re Mitch Adams, chief editor of Squirrel
Media?"
"Yes, yes. That''s me." Mitch nodded in agitation when he saw that Sonia knew of him. "Miss Reed,
I''m begging you. I realized my mistake in the matter this time. So please let me off, and I won''t ever
do it again in the future. I can give you anything you want, but I really, really don''t want to go to jail,"
he said as he started to wriggle again in an attempt to break free once more and run toward Sonia.
Unfortunately, the two police officers were on high alert now and wouldn''t allow him the chance to
break free from their grasp. So, the moment Mitch struggled, they pressed down hard on him.
The crisp sound of bones cracking echoed, and Mitch''s face wrinkled into a pained look as they
pinned him harder onto the ground, and he couldn''t help but howl out in pain.
A shocked Sonia inquired, "Is he alright?"N?velDrama.Org holds this content.
"Don''t worry, Miss Reed," Freddie assured. "Our men know their limits and won''t really break his
limbs. At the most, he will just have a dislocated arm.
"I see." Sonia nodded and didn''t ask anymore, but she turned to Mitch and looked at him sternly.
"You want us to let you off, so you don''t have to go to jail?"
The moment Mitch heard her, he couldn''t be bothered about his arm and raised half of his face with
great difficulty, sweating profusely as he nodded. "Yes, that''s right, Miss Reed. But, please, I''m
begging you. I don''t want to spend the rest of my life in jail. I''m almost fifty and have my mother and
children to care for. They can''t do without me, Miss Reed…"
At the mention of this, he actually started sobbing with snot and tears, looking very pathetic.
Regrettably, Sonia was not the least soft-hearted to see him like this. But, in contrast, she was sick
and disgusted as it made her sick to see a grown man crying so pathetically.
She suppressed her urge to throw up, turned her head the other way, and refused to look at Mitch
lest she really retched.
"Since you know that you''ll be spending the rest of your life in jail, it shows that you''re well aware of
the severity of your actions," she said without a single trace of emotion on her face. "I''m sorry, but
I''m a good citizen who abides by thew. It''s the simplest of my duties to fight injustice and
eliminate evil. Regardless, when ites to a criminal like you, I''m already showing mercy by not
adding a few more years to your sentence, so how can I possibly forgive you and let you off?"
After she said that, Mitch was dumbfounded, and his cries paused for a few seconds as his body
became rigid on the floor.
A good whileter, he became agitated again and started begging as he did before. "Miss Reed, I
know I''ve done unforgivable things to you, but I have no other choice, too. Someone forced me into
it, Miss Reed. For the sake that I did it against my own will, please show some mercy, and I won''t do
it again in the future. I promise I won''t!"
"Forced?" A sneer tinged the edge of her pink lips. "You know it very well whether you were forced
or it was just greed. Don''t forget that we''re now living in a time where the police can thoroughly
investigate every transaction. Do you expect anyone to believe you now that you''re telling me that
you were forced? Furthermore, are you a person who could be forced so easily? Even if Miss Lore
has a slight influence, she was in no position to order you around. After all, she''s not Toby Fuller,
and if you''re not even afraid of the Young Master of the Harper Family, will you be afraid of Miss
Lore?"