Lina rejoiced in my unfortunate situation. She said, "William, you'll pay for your sinister doings. I feel relieved that I broke up with you ages ago. Benjamin wasn't wrong. You pretended to be a rich kid initially, but greed ate at you slowly. Eventually, it'll destroy your morals. Mr. Connaught, why won't you take the watch back from him? He'll be imprisoned soon."
Mason spared Lina a glance as though he was staring at the dumbest woman on earth. Then, he turned to me and asked, "Mr. White, should I teach her a lesson and avenge you?"
I shook my head slowly and said, "No need. Just like she said, she'll suffer for her wrongdoings. What goes around comes around."
Finding someone to teach her a lesson was a blessing for her.
As they spoke, the uniformed policemen approached the stage and said, "Ryan Hudson, aren't you surrendering?"
Since the arrival of the police, Ryan had been pale as a sheet. When they said his name, he began trembling. His microphone slipped and clattered onto the floor.
"No, no. It wasn't me! It wasn't me. You've made a mistake. You're detaining the wrong person."
However, before Ryan could continue spewing excuses, they climbed onto the stage and pinned his hands behind his back before proceeding to put handcuffs on him.
Lina was struck dumb. "What are you doing? That's the wrong man you've got. He's Ryan, not William."
They said sternly, " That's exactly the man we want to detain. Come clean, Ryan. Where is your accomplice, Lina?"
Perhaps because he knew that there was no escaping his fate, Ryan stopped explaining and screamed, "She's not an accomplice. She's the primary perpetrator! She stole the money. I'm innocent. I was framed. It was all her idea. It's her fault, not mine!"
When she heard this, Lina nearly fainted on stage.
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