My Three Darlings

Chapter 20

Eliza almost spat out the juice in her mouth.

She lowered her voice. “Is she Demarion’s online friend?”

Eliza was already shocked enough to know that Demarion was making friends on the internet. Now, she was dumbfounded to see that the so-called friend was Esme.

“Don’t make a sound. Let’s just watch.”

Braint lowered his head and sent a message on his phone.

Over there, Esme sat down at the reserved table and took out a small mirror. While she was fixing her makeup, she also made phone calls to show off to her best friend.

“I’m at the restaurant now. Rodolfo said that he’ll be here soon.”

“I wonder why men like to fawn over me. We just talked for two days and he has already gifted me a ten karat diamond ring.”

“He also told me that he’ll announce our relationship to media outlets after meeting me today. Imagine that, I’ll be in the headlines and I’ll be the happiest woman in Krine!”

“Yes, rest assured. I will definitely invite you to our wedding. Rodolfo is so filthy rich…”

Esme’s voice was so loud the everyone in the restaurant could hear her conversation. She was obviously very proud of herself.

Eliza used the magazine to cover her face as she looked at Braint, who was sitting next to her. “What are you guys doing?” “Who is Rodolfo Ball?”

“What does she mean by the ten-karat diamond ring?”

Could it be possible that Rodolfo was Demarion himself?

“Mommy, just wait and see what is about to happen.”

Braint smiled and took a sip of his juice.

After a while, Demarion walked into the restaurant in a black suit.

He looked really handsome today. He walked over to Esme and asked, “Hello, miss. I’m sorry to intrude, are you Ms. Bubbles?”

After hanging up the phone, Esme glanced at the child, who wasn’t even half of her height. “Who are you?” O

“I’m Rodolfo Ball.”

Demarion blinked his eyes and smiled sweetly. “You told me that you didn’t mind if I’m younger than you, right?” Esme raised her eyebrows and looked at Demarion contemptuously, “I don’t have time to talk to you, kid. Go away!” Based on her conversation with Rodolfo online, he seemed to be a kind and mature man. How could he turn out to be a young child? That was just preposterous! “I’m not lying! I’m Rodolfo Ball!”

Demarion pursed his lips, took out his phone, and sent a message. At the same time, Esme’s mobile phone rang, which indicated a message.

Demarion shook the phone proudly and said, “That’s me!”

Esme was speechless.

She was looking forward to meeting Rodolfo. How could he turn out to be this brat?

Was she deceived by this child?

Esme was both frustrated and embarrassed at the same time. “You shouldn’t be on dating apps at such a young age!”

“How dare you lie to me! I’m sure you’ll grow up to become a criminal!”

“Stay away from me!”

As soon as Esme finished speaking, Demarion pouted and sat on the ground. He started sobbing uncontrollably.

“You’ve broken your promise!”

“I even stole the ten-karat ring for you! My father bought it as a gift for my mother!”

“How dare you go back against your words!”

“You told me that you would take good care of me after receiving my gift!”

“I’m so young, how dare you lie to me!”

“Boohoo!”

Everyone in the restaurant shifted their attention to Demarion once he started crying.

Someone recognized Esme instantly as he said, “Isn’t that person Esme Lawson, the daughter of the Lawson family?”

“This is just unbelievable! Did she just ask the child to steal his parents’ diamond ring for her? This is a scandal!”

“She’s such a shameless woman!”

“Why is she doing that to a child?”

Very quickly, the restaurant patrons started gossiping among themselves.

Some of the customers took out their phones and broadcasted the live event on different social media platforms.

Esme was petrified. She didn’t know how to react at all.

Who would’ve known that Rodolfo, the kind gentleman whom she’d been talking to, to turn out to be a young child? Rodolfo was a rich man with an enormous fortune. Based on all the pictures he sent to her, he was a handsome man who was living in a mansion! Esme thought that she was in luck this time. That was why she promised to meet him in person after they got to know each other for only one day.

After all, Michael had just gone bankrupt and she had lost a significant investor. Right now, she was in urgent need of another business partner.

Esme had even decided to get married to Rodolfo after meeting him.

But, who would have imagined this to happen? “You liar! Get out of my way!”

She glared at Demarion and turned to leave.

Demarion hugged her leg instantly and yelled, “You can’t go!”

“Give me back my ring!” “And the money I transferred to you online! You have to give it back to me!”

Esme rolled her eyes. “Why should I return them to you?”

While she was speaking, she kicked Demarion away.

Everyone in the cafe was filled with indignation.

Not only did she dare to deceive such a young child, but she even tried to abuse him!

When she saw Demarion falling to the ground, Eliza’s heart went out for him as she shoved the magazine in her hands.

However, Braint held her hand and said, “Calm down, mommy.”

Eliza pursed her lips and lowered her voice. “He’s your brother, aren’t you worried about him?”

Braint paused and turned to look at Eliza with a stern expression. “Do you care about Demarion?”

“Of course!”

Eliza clenched her fists to suppress her anger. “Demarion has never been treated like this at home. She doesn’t have the right to kick him like that!”

“Mom, please don’t.” Braint looked at her face seriously. “Mommy, thank you for caring for Demarion.” Eliza felt slightly uncomfortable under Braint’s solemn gaze. When Eliza looked at Esme again, the butler had already brought along some policemen with him. “Miss Lawson, someone reported that you tried to swindle money from underage children in an online dating platform. Please come to the police station with me.”

After they finished speaking, the two policemen detained Esme.

She struggled violently while screaming, “I didn’t do such a thing!”

“I’m not the one who swindled this kid! He’s the one who approached me first!” “Please, I beg of you. You need to help me…”

Demarion was still bawling his eyes out.

The butler held Demarion in his arms with tears streaming down his cheeks. The butler said scornfully, “Demarion is only five years old this year. How could he steal his parents’ ring without any form of persuasion?”

Noticing that both of them were crying pitifully, the policeman turned and said, “Miss Lawson, are you seriously accusing the child of committing a crime? If you want to blame someone, you should at least come up with a more logical explanation.” © 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

“We’ll talk at the police station!”

After that, the police took Esme away.

Carrying Demarion in his arms, the butler followed suit. Eliza was dumbstruck. Braint sighed and jumped down from his chair. He grabbed Eliza’s pinky and said, “Mommy, let’s go to the police station to get Demarion.”

Eliza still couldn’t wrap her head around the incident. She came back to her senses and asked, “Did you guys plan all this?” “That’s right!”

Braint took her hand and walked out of the door. “But we didn’t lie to that woman!”

“Demarion told her that she’ll be on the headlines after they met each other.”

“But she’ll be in the criminal news section instead.”