The mansion doors swung open.<\/p>\n
Several men in dark suits walked inside.<\/p>\n
An older gentleman followed, his expression calm.<\/p>\n
He looked at the bruises on his daughter.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho touched you?\u201d<\/p>\n
She silently pointed toward the couple.<\/p>\n
The man on the sofa forced a nervous smile.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is all a misunderstanding.\u201d<\/p>\n
The older gentleman ignored him.<\/p>\n
Instead, he placed a folder on the marble table.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour company is bankrupt.\u201d<\/p>\n
The woman’s champagne glass slipped from her hand and shattered.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked at her without anger.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt became possible the moment you hurt my daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n
The young woman finally lifted her head.<\/p>\n
\u201cI warned you.\u201d<\/p>\n
No one in the mansion spoke.<\/p>\n
The older gentleman gently placed his coat over her shoulders.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet’s go home.\u201d<\/p>\n
As they walked toward the waiting car\u2014<\/p>\n
the couple realized too late…<\/p>\n
they hadn’t humiliated a helpless woman…<\/p>\n
they had declared war on the wrong family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The mansion doors swung open. Several men in dark suits walked inside. An older gentleman followed, his expression calm. He looked at the bruises on his daughter. \u201cWho touched you?\u201d She silently pointed toward the couple. The man on the sofa forced a nervous smile. \u201cThis is all a misunderstanding.\u201d The older gentleman ignored him. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}