A Vengeful Ex-Wife

Chapter 372 Leave It To Me

Maria searched the memory card slot of the dash camera, only to find that it was empty.

She wanted to curse, not even at other people, but at herself. How could she be so stupid? She hadn't even realized that something had been stolen from her car.

Whoever the thief was, they must have taken the opportunity to break into her car when she had walked away to see whether Alina was okay.

Scratching her head, she leaned back on the chair with an irritable groan.

Her phone rang at that moment, and she answered it without even looking at the caller ID. "Hello."

"I'm almost there. How are you doing now?" It was James on the other line.

"The memory card of the dash cam is gone. Someone stole it. Can you check if the footage is stored on the cloud?" she said anxiously. The car was developed by HL Group, so she hoped that James would have a solution.

"Well, since your memory card is gone, you won't be able to see the footage even if you connect to the cloud storage." The cloud storage account had a limited memory, and needed to be updated manually.

Maria bit her lip, feeling like she had lost all hope. "I just took a look. There is no surveillance camera on this stretch of the road, and there is only one camera far behind. Alina must have planned-" She suddenly stopped herself before continuing, "James, people on the Internet are saying that I deliberately crashed into Alina to make her miscarry."

To her surprise, James scoffed. "Let me take care of it," he said casually.

"Why are you laughing? Those people are also saying that the child she was carrying was yours!" Maria knew that it wasn't the right time or place to argue with him about this matter, but she couldn't help it.

"I'm laughing because they are stupid," James explained patiently.

Still unconvinced, Maria pressed her lips into a thin line and asked, "Why are they stupid?"

"Maria." James' tone turned serious.

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"Do you know why you've never been able to defeat them? I mean Alina, Rosa, and Colby." Jonathan wasn't included in the list.

Maria gritted her teeth unhappily. It wasn't that she couldn't defeat these people. For example, she had had many opportunities to make Alina suffer, but for some reason, she had let the other woman go again and again.

"Why?" she asked uncertainly. Alina was definitely weaker than her in all aspects. Thinking about it now, the only reason she hadn't been able to defeat Alina was because James was protecting her. As for Rosa, the war between them had only just begun, so he couldn't say that she couldn't defeat her yet.

"Because you are not as cruel as them," James said simply. He hit the nail right on the head.

It didn't matter who the father of Alina's baby was.

All that mattered was that, in order to frame Maria, Alina was willing to even sacrifice her unborn baby. On the other hand, after getting pregnant with Bob, Maria had fought tooth and nail to protect him. She had even gone so far as to hide his identity from James.

James had already guessed that the reason she hadn't told him about Bob's identity was because he had once told her that he would dig out the baby in her belly. And that was why he didn't blame her for not telling him about Bob.

Now, even though she had him firmly on her side, she was still requesting him to protect the child.

What was more, back when she had taken Colby's daughter away in the US, she hadn't harmed a single hair on the young girl's head, but eventually sent her back home safe and sound.

So, how could such a soft-hearted person like Maria intentionally try to kill an innocent fetus? James had no doubt about what the truth was.

As for Maria, she stayed silent for a long time after hearing James' words.

Even without an explanation, she could follow his line of reasoning.

In the end, she just let out an exhausted sigh.

Knowing how she was feeling, James continued, "Don't be afraid of problems. Every problem has a solution. Leave it to me. But for me to do that, you have to believe that I had nothing to do with the baby in her belly."

Maria was at a loss as to whether to laugh or cry. "I believe you," she said softly. She would trust him, just as much as he trusted her.

"Good, now get out of the car." "What?"

Maria turned around in a daze as she heard a knock on the car door. Through the window, she saw a man standing outside, looking at her with a phone held up to his ear.

Relief flooded her heart as she opened the door and got out of the car. "James," she breathed, gently throwing her arms around him. At this moment, she felt deeply wronged, because of Alina's trap, as well as the people who abused her indiscriminately on the Internet. Even though she knew that Alina must have paid those people to spread such hateful lies, she still couldn't help but break into tears upon seeing her pillar of comfort.

James kissed her hair gently and comforted her. "It's not a big deal."

"Okay." She didn't want to think about anything. She just wanted to rely on him.

In order to make her feel at ease, James, who rarely joked around, said, "I've never seen any woman who crashes her car or buys a new car as frequently as you do." Fortunately, he could afford to buy plenty of new cars for her.

"What happened today wasn't my fault," Maria said, pouting.

"I know it wasn't. I'll arrange a driver for you," James said, patting her on the back. He was just glad that Alina was the one who had gotten hurt, and not Maria. He had been frightened out of his skin after hearing the news of the car accident.

"You are blaming me," Maria said, pulling back and looking at him with her jaw dropped in shock.

"When it comes to your safety, I can't let you do whatever you want," James explained. If it was any other matter, he would give into this woman without a second thought.

Noticing the firmness of his tone, Maria reluctantly agreed. "Fine. But you pay for the driver."

"Okay," James said with a chuckle. He had never intended on letting her pay anyway.

The top search topics about Maria and the car accident quietly disappeared from the Internet. James couldn't bear to see anyone cursing or badmouthing her, so he banned all the accounts that

did so.

At the hospital

Miranda exclaimed, "What did you say?" The doctor patiently repeated, "The car accident caused a rupture in her uterus, so there is no possibility of saving the baby. Now, we have to do an operation to remove the uterus. Otherwise, the massive hemorrhage will put her life in danger. As her closest family member, we need you to sign this consent form. We have to perform the operation as soon as possible."

Miranda was in a daze after hearing the first sentence, and barely registered the rest of the doctor's words. With a lump in her throat, she asked, "Is my daughter pregnant?" She had no idea that her daughter was pregnant, let alone who the father of the baby was.

"Yes. You didn't know? It has been more than three months."

Miranda didn't know what to say. She really hadn't known anything. She covered her aching heart and leaned against the wall, gasping for breath. "If my daughter's uterus is removed, she will lose the right to be a mother forever, right?"

"Yes. But this is a life or death situation. She has no other choice.

Please sign your name as soon as possible so that the operation can be a successful one," the doctor urged.

Once all the news about Maria had been wiped off the Internet, Joshua released a legal letter on the public account of HL Group.

The legal letter clearly stated that Alina being pregnant with James' child, Maria deliberately crashing into her car to make her miscarry, and all other related topics were just baseless rumors. It

also stated that HL Group had preserved the evidence of the infringement, and would call every infringer to account in accordance with the law, so as to protect the legal rights of James and Maria.

James had swiftly taken the offensive, which was the most effective position in matters like this. Overnight, dozens of social media accounts publicly apologized to Maria, clearly admitting that they had accepted bribes to discredit her.

The next evening, James walked into the in-patient department of the hospital with a group of people.

As soon as Alina saw him, her heart sank. Obviously, she knew that he wasn't here to show his concern for her.

As expected, he stood next to her bed and said, "Right now, I don't care who the mastermind behind all this is. What I want now is for you to publicly apologize to Maria and prove her innocence."

In fact, he already knew who the mastermind was, but he needed to deal with Alina first.

"No way! She killed my baby! How can you protect her even after that, James?" Alina protested immediately. She had only come out of the operation room a while ago, and her face was deathly pale.

"She killed your baby?" James sneered.