Chapter 371 Good Boy
Upon hearing what James said, Maria said indifferently, "I don''t care. You can help Alina as you
want."
"Stop the car."
"Huh?"
James nodded and repeated, "Turn on the signal light and pull over."
Maria found an intersection and pulled up by the roadside. She turned on the blinkers and looked at
him in confusion. "What''s up?"
"I think we need to clear the air right now." In particr, he couldn''t just stand idly by and do nothing
when Maria was feeling sad.
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His response took her by surprise, but she said nothing.
"I met Alina on the ne, and I had no idea where she had gone. She asked to change seats with
me. We didn''t really say much to each other. If you''re unhappy on ount of me helping her looking
for a boyfriend, I can have someone else deal with this matter." His low voice resounded inside the
car.
Maria simply responded, "Good. What''s more, you can''t meet up with her in private."
Judging by her tone and the annoyed look on her face, James could tell that she was jealous.
Reining in his amusement, he leaned over and cupped her face in his palms. Then, he closed the
remaining distance between them with a gentle kiss.
Maria did not know how to react. ''What does this kiss mean? Does he agree or not?''
Their lips parted, but their foreheads remained touching, and their breaths mingled between them.
James rasped out in a hoarse voice, "I promise." Whatever she wanted, he would simply obey.
His wholehearted devotion was almost unbearable. Her heart melting in her chest, she stroked his
head and grinned. "Thank you." Then, she patted his head like he was a puppy. "Good boy."
James raised his eyebrows. Why did he feel like Maria was treating him like a puppy? ''Am I a pet?''
Maria originally nned to pick up Bob from Augustine''s house, but James refused. ording to
him, they should have a date, just the two of them, for one night.
As a result of agreeing to his suggestion, Maria didn''t sleep well that night.
After having lunch the next day, she had to take a nap before going out.
As Maria drove past an intersection, she happened to notice a ck car tailing her.
She remained on high alert after that, but then the vehicle suddenly turned left at a corner and
disappeared.
A few minutester, she drove into a sparsely popted road. The ck car that she thought she
had lost at a previous corner reappeared, but this time on the oppositene.
The car wasn''t moving fast. It wasn''t until the two cars were close enough that Maria found the
person behind the wheel was Alina.
Alina kept staring at her car. Sensing that something was wrong, Maria slowed down her car.
Just then, the ck car crossed the road''s midline and rushed toward her car. Immediately, Maria
shifted to reverse gear and retreated.
''Is Alina out of her mind? Does she forget that she is pregnant?
I can''t get involved in a car collision.''
Meanwhile, another car queued up behind hers. The narrow road did not allow for overtakes, so the
driver slowed down and honked his horn.
However, Alina''s car kept moving forward. Caught between two cars, Maria had no choice but to
drive in reverse until she inevitably bumped into the car behind her. The screech of metal against
metal made Maria grit her teeth in distress.
Even then, she stepped on the gas and continued to drive backwards.
She couldn''t let Alina hit her and seed in whatever she was nning.
Maria''s continued attempts to escape drove Alina crazy. The woman stepped on her gas pedal.
By then, her car had reached an intersection. Their cars were a few moments away from a head-on
collision when a small truck suddenly hurtled toward them from another direction.
The truck crashed into the side of Alina''s car.
The ident happened so suddenly that Maria couldn''t believe her eyes.
The ear-piercing crunch of metal and skid of rubber tires against the asphalt echoed menacingly on
the road. Then, Alina''s car got knocked over by the truck.
The driver seemed to have lost control of the truck entirely, sending the truck into the bushes by the
roadside.
With the strength of the impact, Alina''s ck car flipped over a few times before resting in the
middle of the road with its bottom facing the sky.
Maria killed her car''s engine, took several deep breaths to calm herself down, and then called the
ambnce and the police.
While she spoke on the phone, somebody knocked loudly on her car window. She rolled her
window down and suspiciously started at the man, who was the driver of the car behind her.
Maria got out of her car as she talked on the phone with the police. "Yes, that is the correct address.
Pleasee as soon as possible."
"What''s wrong with you? Why were you driving your car in reverse? You don''t even know how to
drive, so why the hell are you on the road?" the man yelled after Maria ended the call.
With a stony face, Maria pointed at the car that was knocked over. "That person should be held
responsible for this ident. Didn''t you see that she was trying to hit my car with hers?"
The other driver appeared shell-shocked when he saw the state of Alina''s car
The injured truck driver jumped out of his vehicle. Judging from the amount of blood from his
forehead, Maria could tell that the injury was a minor one.
All of them rushed to the side of Alina''s car at the same time. Through the blurred windows, they
could see Alina harnessed upside down by her seatbelt, wincing in pain.
Maria took a deep breath. Just to destroy her, Alina ignored the fact that she was carrying a baby
inside her.
There were only a few witnesses at first, but more people started to gather around the ident site.
Soon, there were insurancepanies, ambnces, the police, and a throng of curious passers-
by.
After Maria''s call to James, she received a call from Peggy. "What''s going on, Maria? Are you
okay?"
"How did you know?" Maria asked back, confused.
"You are on the news."
"What?" She nced around and found one or two people who looked like reporters. Absently, she
marveled at the speed at which the news had spread.
"Yes, you are all over the Inte now. Are you hurt? Did anything happen?" Peggy''s tone got
higher.
"I''m fine. It''s Alina who got hurt." When the EMT folks were able to extract her from the car, the
lower part of her clothes were stained brightly with blood.
"Thank goodness, you''re fine." Peggy breathed a sigh of relief. To her, nobody else mattered as
long as Maria wasn''t hurt.
"I need to go now. Talk to youter."
"Okay, take care!"
Maria ended the call and quickly searched for her own name on the Inte. Just as Peggy had told
her, she was at the top of the hot topics list and search rankings.
Some headliners were quite sensational and erroneous. ''Maria Song drove toward James Xi''s
exgirlfriend, '' one of the article titles read.
She clicked on the news to read more about it. The specific content of the news was that the vicious
ex-wife, Maria, deliberately drove toward Alina''s car. As a result, her unborn child, who was
suspected to be fathered by James, was killed on the spot. Alina, who was covered in blood, was
sent to the hospital. The newspaper would closely follow up on the story.
Under the articles, the viciousments made Mariaugh darkly. Theizens were all attacking
her.
As it turned out, the so-called ident was all nned out beforehand. Alina even prepared the
fake news to be released to the public before the incident actually happened. As soon as Alina was
sent to the hospital, all sorts of fake news articles about the collision had started floating all over the
Inte.
Maria refreshed the webpage, and more crazy stories about her appeared.
It had been a while since she was subjected to the public''s wrath like this. Thest time happened
when James held an activity at her coffee shop, and she became an instant sensation overnight. As
the cake was sold at five million dors, someone put up a nasty, lie-infested write-up about her that
maligned her character so thoroughly. One million for a cup of coffee and five million for a cake?
She was quite the Inte celebrity in those days due to her alleged fortune-hunting personality.
She didn''t care what they said about her on the Inte and let the curses fly right by her head.
Today, history repeated itself. Maria was once again the topic of gossip, and it was fast starting to
appear to her that Alina had something to do even with her previous online notoriety.
''Alina''s an idiot. Did the thought of dash cams and high-tech video recorders not ur to her at all?''
Ignoring the buzzing of her phone in her pocket, Maria went back to her car to get the memory card
from the dash cam.
When she got there, the car door was open.
Staring at her car door for a long time, she was filled with a sense of foreboding.