Filed to story: The Disguised Billionaire and His Accidental Wife Novel
Duncan’s eyes went straight to his employees huddled at the front door when he stepped out of the office building. He walked over right away.
Three women engaging in a fight was the last thing he would expect.
By the time he yelled, Liberty had pinned Chelsea to the ground and pinched her hard. Chelsea shrieked in agony.
Mrs. Brown pulled, tugged, and hit Liberty, attempting to rescue her daughter.
Duncan took large strides ahead and managed to shove Mrs. Brown to the side. He then stopped Liberty from torturing Chelsea by pulling her away from the latter.
Black in the face, Duncan asked, “What’s going on here?”
Chelsea got up from the ground and tried to charge at Liberty, but Duncan pushed heraway.
It took a few steps before Chelsea could steady her balance.
Chelsea looked up and saw a towering man with a scowl standing by Liberty.
The scar on the man’s face was terrifying. She might have nightmares if she stared at the scar long enough.
Shaking in her boots, Chelsea lost the will to pounce on Liberty.
Mrs. Brown hurried to her daughter’s side. The mother and daughter were a hot mess, but so was Liberty.
The few security guards and female employees who tried intervening in the fight looked disheveled.
It never crossed their minds that the fight between two parties involving three women could get so wild. It was impossible to tear them apart.
“Who are you?”
After catching her breath, Chelsea questioned Duncan.
“I’m the boss of this company, and who are you? Who are you to come to my place of business and kick my employee around?”
Duncan turned his head to take in the state Liberty was in.
Liberty’s hair was a mess and she was covered in dirt. She got it from the tussle she had with Chelsea on the ground. There were scratch marks on the back of her hands, neck, and face. Some were bleeding.
“Call the cops,” Duncan instructed the secretary who came with him.
“Mr. Lewis, the cops are on their way.”
Hearing that Duncan was the boss of the company, the mother and daughter did not know if they had a leg to stand on.
Nevertheless, Chelsea stubbornly said, “Are you Liberty’s boss? Good. I need to voice something out, and you can be the judge of it. Liberty’s grandfather extorted sixty thousand dollars from my mom and refused to return the money. Liberty should pay us back for that.
“We can forget about the divorce settlement, but why did she have to trash the house my brother bought before marriage?”
Furrowing his brows, Duncan replied, “You can involve law enforcement if you can’t get back the money Liberty’s grandfather extorted. What does it have to do with Liberty? Your should know about the situation between Liberty and her relatives. It was online for everybody to see. I don’t read viral news online, but even I knew about it.
“So, no. Liberty shouldn’t pay you back for that because it has nothing to do with her.”
Duncan refuted Chelsea before throwing a question to Liberty. “Did you trash their home furnishings?”
Liberty bitterly uttered, “I paid for the renovation cost with the savings I got before the wedding. I poured over four hundred thousand dollars into the house, but I got nothing out. of the property, not even a refund on the renovation cost. I demolished the place since they paid nothing for it.”
Duncan nodded his head. “You weren’t wrong to do so.”
Darting a callous glance at the mother and daughter, Duncan said in a flat tone, “The nerve of
you two. You’re the ones at fault. Yet, you came here to kick up a fuss and fight in front of my office. Do you have no respect for my workplace?”
He then turned to the security guards. “Don’t hold back the next time they come here to pick a fight. Give them a good beating and send them to jail. I want to sue them for public disruption and physical abuse of my employee.
“Liberty, get your injuries checked out in the hospital, so you can sue them for aggravated assault. They should pay for this!”
The mother and daughter were at a loss.
Mrs. Brown remarked, “She hit us too. Look at what she did to my daughter. She crushed my daughter with her fats and elephantine weight.”
“They started it. Liberty was only acting out of self–defense.”
“Who are you to say that we started it? You’re her colleagues. You’re twisting the facts to help her!”
Chelsea refused to admit that she pulled the first punch.
Duncan coldly chimed in, “Stop bickering. I have a few security cameras with 360–degree views installed at the entrance. We can check the surveillance tapes on who started it when the cops arrive.”
The mother and daughter were lost for words.
Mrs. Brown whispered to her daughter, “Let’s make a run for it, Chelsea.”
Afraid to be arrested by the cops, Chelsea agreed to her mother’s suggestion. “Okay.”
The Browns pair tried to flee.
Alas, the cops arrived.
“Stop them!”
Seeing that the mother and daughter were going to make a run for it, Duncan commanded the people to swoop in on them.
“Mr. Lewis, did you call the cops? What happened here? There seems to be a commotion.”
The cops recognized Duncan.
It was mainly because Duncan was a familiar face among the police force but not for al good reason.
After turning over a new leaf, Duncan took an honest path and went into business. He grew Lewis & Co. into one of the major corporations in Wiltspoon in the span of a few years and had a net worth of billions.
Everybody around here knew who Duncan was.
Well, it would be more accurate to say that everybody doing business in Wiltspoon knew
Duncan.
“They came here to beat up my employee. Look at what they did to her.”
Duncan pulled Liberty out from the crowd and showed the train wreck Liberty was.
The cops were speechless.
A catfight!
Their gaze shifted from Liberty to the mother and daughter. Mrs. Brown did not suffer many injuries. Liberty simply pushed her aside and left her out of the fight due to Mrs. Brown’s old age. Liberty unleashed all her anger on Chelsea, so the latter had it worse.
It was plain to see who won the catfight.
Nevertheless, it did not matter to the cops who triumphed. All that mattered was who was in the right.
“Officer, this is a family matter. She’s my sister–in–law. We butted heads because of a household affair,” Chelsea quickly explained.
She would not be able to keep her job if word got out that she was arrested.
Although she had been having a hard time at work, Chelsea cared about her job. She did. not want to lose it.
“I’m her mother–in–law. It’s just a family dispute. We just got into a tiny issue and got a little
physical. Officer, please believe us.
Mrs. Brown was frightened, afraid that the cops might take them away.
She did not want to spend the New Year’s locked up in a cell. She would be humiliated if her family found out about it.
“I’m divorced. They are not related to me in any way.”
Liberty stated aloofly, bringing up the reason for the dispute.
There were many eyewitnesses and surveillance footage. After checking the security tape and taking testimonies, the cops drew up their own conclusions that the mother and daughter were cruel. It gave them a new perspective about human nature.
The mother and daughter had the audacity to make trouble at the woman’s workplace after the woman no longer had anything to do with the family.
They lost tens of thousands and put the responsibility on an ex–family member.
The sister–in–law was something else. She could twist the facts around.
The woman who was hit should have divorced the man sooner.
She should have separated from the man early on so she could get away from her notorious mother–in–law and sister–in–law.