Her sharp gaze was swinging back toward Samuel when a woman burst through the crowd, slapped me three times across the face in rapid succession, and shrieked:
"June Delgado, have you lost your mind? Forging documents to con a tycoon's daughter!"
"When they catch you out, you'll drag our whole family straight to hell—do you even care?"
My cheek swelled instantly from the blows.
Five clear fingerprints stood out against the skin.
I looked hard at the woman in front of me and realized I had never seen her before in my life.
Holding my injured cheek, I kept my expression cold and gave her one warning.
"I don't know you. Apologize and compensate me right now, or my legal team will sue you into the ground."
The woman threw herself into hysterics.
"Heaven strike me down! How did I give birth to a wretch like you?"
"She'll lie to anyone! She won't even acknowledge her own mother!"
"Effie, Samuel—I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry! I didn't raise her right, this is my fault."
"However you want to punish her, go right ahead. I won't stop you. Better that than letting her keep running scams everywhere she goes!"
The room erupted. Sharp intakes of breath cut through the crowd on every side.