Chapter 84
Lily crawled toward them and using both her hands and feet she clung tightly to their legs. A thick stream of snot dripped from her ose, which she wiped onto Cassie’s pants. Jacob looked utterly disgusted. With a forceful kick, he shoved Lily aside and yelled, “I don’t ave a daughter like you!”
His action made the audience in the live stream room erupt in outrage.
[! can’t believe how heartless they are! They won’t even acknowledge their own child.]
Noticing the furious comment, Cassie lowered her head in shame and tugged at Jacob’s sleeve. She was signaling to him to close is mouth.
“Daddy, Mommy, take me home!” Lily pleaded persistently with a loud voice.} Jacob looked torn. He gripped Cassie’s hand as he stammered, “Well … or you later.”
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we have something to do right now. We’ll come back
As soon as he finished speaking, the two turned their heads down and bolted for the door. However, just as they reached the entrance, a group of people suddenly appeared and blocked their way.
“Where do you think you’re going?“>
A crowd of young people swarmed the doorway and completely cut off Jacob and Cassie’s way to escape. Each one of them had heir phones out and their cameras pointed directly at Jacob and Cassie. Their faces burned with righteous anger.
They were actually the viewers from the live stream. They are the good Samaritans who had rushed over in person to confront these heartless parents.
Meanwhile, comments in the livestream chat room kept on coming in a rush. The comment section scrolled like crazy.}
[They think they can run? It’s a good thing that netizens move fast! Don’t let these scumbags get away!]}
A sharp–eyed young man stepped forward and shoved a microphone in Jacob’s face in a flash and with a firm and unwavering tone, ne said, “You abandoned your daughter with cerebral palsy and now you want to escape, huh? We caught you red–handed! What do you have to say for yourselves?”
Jacob’s face turned deathly pale. Enraged and humiliated, he suddenly shoved the young man aside and shouted, “What’s it to you Buys? A bunch of busybodies who have nothing better to do than stir up trouble!”
The students around him reacted quickly. They shoved their phone cameras closer and raised their voices, “If you try to lay a hand on us again, we’ll hand this footage over to the police! Assaulting students in public? We all saw it!”
Jacob flinched when he heard the threat and instinctively retreated in fear.
The young man who had been pushed held his injured arm. His face was dark with anger as he stepped forward again and demanded, “Apologize. Right now. Or I’m calling the cops.“%
Casme panicked and quickly stepped in. With a a pleasing smile she coaxed, “Hey, kids, my husband was in the wrong, okay? We were put in a hurry to go to the bathroom! Really, this is all a misunderstanding.”
The crowd’s sharp eyes stayed locked on the couple.
