Chapter 179
Chapter 179
Charmine felt as if she had been cut loose, no longer deemed worthy of Joey’s love.
“So vou’re not gonna give me a chance to explain as usual and just assume that I’m the one who pushed her? Again?” she whimpered helplessly, reminding Joey of the memory they had made yesterday where she had a good conversation with Charmine.
“Enlighten me? C’mon, Charmine. I saw what happened with my own eyes. What else can you explain?” spluttered Joey.
“What do you expect when you’ve already perceived that I’m the one at fault? Do you think that I’d just push her if I wanted payback? With the evidence I had yesterday, I can easily send her to jail. I pushed her out of revenge? Hah! What a joke!” huffed Charmine.
She gazed coldly at Tiffany, somewhat furious. She then ripped her eyes away and walked back to the shade where she had been resting earlier. She was back to being left alone. 1
“I don’t think Charmine would do this. There must be some misunderstanding going on.” The crew was chatting amongst themselves about it.
“Shoving Tiffany into the pool would only make her choke a bit and Charmine herself would have to bear the consequences. It isn’t worth it.”
“You know, we can’t just judge a book by its cover. Some people appear to be kind but who knows? They might be a cunning fox deep down.”
“Looking at Tiffany right now makes me think of the time when she stood out for Charmine. Such a hypocrite!”
People were now drawn into their own guessing game as they no longer believed that Tiffany was as pure as snow since the incident. They even felt disgusted with her fake kindness. 1
If that conversation did not happen yesterday, Joey would have believed what Tiffany had said. Charmine’s decision to not hand over the evidence or snatch Julian away from Tiffany at such a difficult time had caught her off guard. It seemed that Charmine was not so bad after all. 1
The blame left Charmine to mourn her way through the park alone, and there was an uncomfortable feeling that gripped at Joey’s heart. She could have been able to swoop in and defend her, but she did not. She felt her gut clench a little when the situation sank in. Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.
She turned to Tiffany and said, “Let’s go home and get changed.”
“Mommy, do you still think I was the one who set this up? You know I don’t know how to swim. I swear I didn’t do it on purpose…” Tiffany tried to implore Joey to change her mind. She sounded so pitiful that people would have felt sorry for her.
“No, my dear Tiffy. You know that I love you. However, I believed that Charmine did not do it o n purpose. Look, if you were so unforgivable, she would have had you sacked from the industry much earlier.”
“You saw it, didn’t you, mommy? I’d never set her up. Maybe she’s not in the good mood and that’s why…”
“That’s enough, Tiffany. Anyhow, she didn’t mean to push you down. Let’s go home quickly. I f not, we’ll have a hard time fighting off the paparazzi again,” said Joey while grabbing Tiffany’s hand and darting away.
Tiffany was aggrieved. She knew that Joey believed Charmine this time.
With no effort at all, how could she win Joey’s trust so easily?
‘She doesn’t trust me like before anymore.’ She clenched her fist, trying hard to suppress her
rage. 1
Once they got home, Ronnie took her to get changed.
“Where’s the video! Show me the video!” Tiffany rudely demanded toward Ronnie after Joey
left the room.
“Ms. Tiff… Tiffany.” Ronnie’s lips barely as she handed the cellphone over to Tiffany.
In the video, it showed Charmine sweeping away the cake from Tiffany. The angle did not capture Tiffany being pushed by Charmine into the pond.
Her initial plan was to upload the video of Charmine pushing her into the pond onto social media and with that, she could also show it to Joey. However, she had not managed to capture the particular moment. She was jinxed. 1
“Are you dumb or something? Do think these f*cking photos and videos captured from such f* cking bad angles are going to be useful to me? Get out of here, you miserable wretch! Scram!” Burning rage flowed through her body like a deathly poison, screeching and demanding to be released from within her in the form of unwanted violence. She was like a volcano, erupted and exploding with anger. Without an ounce of control, she threw objects around the room, breaking them. 1 Ronnie crouched in her shadow as a primeval instinct took over.