Pampered by my three brothers: the return of the neglected heiress novel Chapter 612

Chapter 612: Fine lines between truth and lie

"Help! Help! Somebody! Please, help me! Don’t let them take me away!"

"Ugh..." Ginnie grunted as she tried to get up. "These losers... There are so many men here, but no one is courageous enough to help. I need to help her."

Grace held Ginnie’s arm, assisting her to stand up. However, she scanned her surroundings. The first thing she looked for was CCTV cameras, followed by the bodyguards in the crowd. She quickly understood why no one was stepping in.

There were more bodyguards with Aiden than expected.

"He followed her here," Grace concluded as they stood up. "Ginnie, stay here. They might notice you."

"But Lily—"

"I’ll go." Grace squeezed Ginnie’s arm, nodding at her reassuringly. "Call the police. I’ll follow them..."

Grace trailed off as she caught a figure from the corner of her eye. Even before she could see who it was, she held her breath and panicked.

"Penny," she breathed out. The moment Grace turned her head, all she saw was Penny thrusting her arm toward one of the men dragging Lily away.

"Ah!" the bodyguard yelped as he moved his arm away, letting go of Lily due to the sting in his shoulder. He didn’t see the attack coming, but he sensed the murderous intent approaching him from behind. Thus, he released Lily, barely inflicting any graze.

"What the—" The bodyguard touched his shoulder, only to feel a shallow cut. Looking at the person who had attacked him, his eyes fell on a small woman spinning a broken wineglass in her fingers.

"Huh?" Meanwhile, Lily, surprised to be released from one grip, turned to the other bodyguard. When she saw him looking in another direction, she glanced over and saw Penny coming to her rescue.

"Penny..." Lily’s lips quivered, her eyes brimming with tears as she felt safe with Penny around. Shaking her head, Lily clenched her teeth, knowing she had to get away first. Taking advantage of the brief distraction Penny created, Lily opened her mouth wide and bit the other man’s arm.

"Ah!!!" the man yelled in both surprise and pain, instinctively letting go of Lily.

The second the man released Lily, she scurried away from him as fast as she could. In the blink of an eye, Lily hid behind Penny.

"Penny..." Lily’s voice shook as she clutched the back of Penny’s clothes. "They’re going to take me away. Please help me. I’m very scared!"

Penny glanced at Lily, noticing she was holding back tears. When Lily was being dramatic, she would yell and act like a diva. But when she was truly scared, happy, or hurt, she would be quiet and hold back her tears.

Right now, Penny could feel Lily’s fear, even though Lily was just pinching her clothes and not touching her directly.

"I’m not serving wine," he blurted out.

"I’m not asking for wine, but for a phone," Grace explained, leaning over the counter. "If you give me that, I’ll let you off the hook. However, I advise you to find a different place to work because this place is going to get dragged into court for negligence. It’s not going to operate for a while."

The poor bartender tensed up, seeing the anger in Grace’s eyes. "I’ll get you the phone."

With that, the bartender quickly left his post to get her phone. Meanwhile, Grace let out a shallow breath and glanced at Lily. Lily quickly jumped to hug Ginnie, her entire body shaking. Grace didn’t dwell on them, lifting her eyes to Penny.

Grace didn’t need to study the look on Penny’s face to see that the latter was angry. Penny wouldn’t let anyone off the hook, especially not Aiden.

’I guess I’m going to handle another case on top of the deal she asked me to handle,’ she thought, glancing at Lily and Ginnie once more. ’But I don’t mind taking this case. I’ll win it, anyway.’

Especially since Grace knew this was an act of retaliation. After all, no one in the club—not even the bouncers—had tried to help Lily. ’They can twist their truths as much as they want, but I know Penny’s truths.’

Then again, even if Penny’s truths were a lie, Grace would make them the truth.

That was Grace’s job—to ensure Penny would never step foot in prison. That was the deal they had, and thus, Grace stayed to observe and gather evidence. The night hadn’t ended, and the aftermath hadn’t concluded, but she was already starting to gather evidence to ensure this wouldn’t reflect badly on Penny and wouldn’t threaten the person—her and her mom’s savior—who belonged nowhere near a place like prison.