Amelia hurriedly lowered down her head and dashed forward without looking back despite him calling her from the back.
She could never let anyone who know her to witness such a scene where she had been abandoned!
However, she clumsily bumped into another person who was coming in her direction as a result of her running too fast.
The person that she had bumped into was in fact a fat man. Consequently, she was bounced back a little due to the momentum. Then, she fell into the embrace of the man who had came after her.
The man startled a little as he had not expect this.
He resisted the urge to push her away and managed to convince himself to hold her arms in support instead.
After assisting Amelia to stand on her feet herself, the man asked in a gentleman-manner, "Mrs. Hopper, are you alright?"
"I'm fine." Amelia awkwardly struggled to get away from his arms. She tried to comb her messy hair.
Afterwards, she forced herself to smile at the young man who had just offered help, "Thank you, Kaiden."
Before Kaiden could pretentiously replied 'you're welcome', the fat man who was knocked by her had rushed over to them.
"Hey!" Pointing at his leather shoes that had been stepped on by Amelia, the fat man questioned her furiously, "Don't you look when you're walking?! Do you know how much my shoes cost? They are very expensive!"
"I..." Amelia opened her mouth but could not bring herself to finish her sentence. Her expression looked so pitiful at the moment.
In normal days, she could handle such trivial matters at ease. However, right this moment she was feeling too exhausted to deal with anything.
Standing beside Amelia, Kaiden raised his chin graciously and spoke to the fat man, "Since you know that they are expensive, why did you wear them out still? Once you wear the shoes, it's inevitable to get dust on them."
Holding grudge, the fat man glared at the extraordinarily handsome man in front of him and yelled, "Hey toy boy, who the hell are you?"
Kaiden crossed his arms in front of his chest and said insidiously, "Fatty, mind your words or else I can't guarantee that you'll be able to go home safely today!"
The fat man was so angry that he rolled up his sleeves and challenged him, "Hey, you're pretty tough, aren't you toy boy? You wanted to challenge me?"
Kaiden raised his eyebrows. It would be such a disgrace to fight with such a trivial person on his own.
Amelia tried her best to gather herself from the disappointment that Patrick had caused her. She turned her head and said to Kaiden, "That's enough, Kaiden. Leave it to me."
Knowing that Amelia was after all a soft woman to deal with, clearly the fat man wanted to take advantage of this as he spoke, "Well, her words are reasonable. One should be responsible for what she does. No point hiding behind an irrelevant person for the wrong she caused?"
"I..."
Kaiden still wanted to say something but Amelia had already pulled him to her back. She tried to block him with her skinny body. She would not want to be responsible for additional medical expenses for him in case Kaiden and this fat man got into a fight.
Kaiden was stunned. He stared at her back blanking, wondering if she was crazy.
The man right in front of her was as fat as a pig. Judging from his behavior, he was one that was likely to raise his hand at women. Instead of letting Kaiden stood for her, she had chosen to drag him behind.
He began to wonder if she acted to protect him, yet he highly doubted this.
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