254 Chapter 254

"I heard there was a fight happening in this store between two women two days ago. That woman is my client's wife, and he wants to press charges on whoever hurt her that day."

The manager went on full guard instantly.

Of course, she knew about the fight in the store two days ago, because it was big and involved children.

But none of the women who fought seemed to want to press charges. After they fought and were separated by the staff, they argued again before one of them left. The woman with four kids threw all her groceries and left without buying anything.

It was a wild situation. Luckily, nobody and nothing got damaged in the store except for the woman who got horrible long scratches on her cheek.

The manager had no affiliation with them, but she had to be careful. Who knew if one of them might be the wife of a billionaire or something.

"I can give you the CCTV recording, but… may I know to whom you work? At least let me know the identity of the woman…."

Diamond's body stiffened, and her heartbeat skipped for a second when the manager basically confirmed there was a fight happening two days ago.

Thus, Diamond continued her pretense;

"My client is Vernon Phoenix Gray, and his wife is the one who got into a fight two days ago," Diamond replied. Diamond could see the doubt in the manager's face.

Vernon was very popular on the internet. Thus the manager must've known a few things about him.

"Miss, I don't think Vernon Phoenix Gray is married. I heard he's dating that one actress, and that woman who fought two days ago doesn't look like the actress he dated," the manager said.

'Oh yeah, that actress lasted for a week at best, because by the time they dated, my boss already had his eyes upon Chloe,' Diamond replied in her head.

Diamond was already bluffing in the first place. She acted like a lawyer handling a client's case, even though she knew damn well that her homegirl would rather keep it for herself. Her boss would rather deal with the problem using his own style.

'Should I call Mr. Phoenix Gray to convince the manager?' Diamond started considering.

But she scrapped the idea quickly.

Because her boss was a man who used intimidation and power to get what he wanted. If Diamond called him, he would probably threaten this poor manager who was just doing her job.

So, the only way to get the recording was to convince her another way, and Diamond knew the right person for this.

'I guess I need his help, huh?'

"Do you want me to call my higher up? He is the one directly handling the case, I'm just a subordinate doing my job," Diamond said.

"Oh, sure, Miss."

Diamond fished her phone out of her bag and called another man she knew well.

"Mhm, yeah, can you come here, boss? It's about the recording that you requested, I'm in the manager's office of that grocery store," Diamond murmured on the phone. "Okay, yes, boss."

After she hung up the phone call, she sent the location to the man via Whatsapp and a brief explanation of what to do to convince the manager.

"Please wait for about fifteen minutes, is that okay?" Diamond asked the manager.

"I can wait, don't worry."

After roughly twenty minutes, someone knocked on the door before it was opened.

A tall, handsome black man wearing glasses and a neat suit walked in. He was probably in his early thirties and looked quite intimidating.

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Diamond rose from the chair and bowed respectfully, "Sir, this is the store manager. She wants you to handle this case personally because I'm just an associate."

"Hm," the man sat on the seat, replacing Diamond and pulled something out of his pocket.

He slid his attorney id to the manager's desk, "My name is Desmond Johnson, I'm an attorney from Kirkland & Ellis. I'm handling the case from Mr. Vernon Phoenix Gray. His wife was attacked two days ago, and the report said that she was attacked here by a woman."

"Now, if you don't mind, I'd like to see the recording to gather evidence," Desmond Johnson said.

The manager checked the attorney's id for a few seconds and nodded without hesitation.

"Please follow me to the security office," the manager said.

Diamond and Desmond followed the manager to the security control office. The manager talked with the head of security of the building, and the head of security agreed to show the CCTV recording from two days ago.

The head security clicked on a few things and showed the CCTV to them.

"Here's what you want," the head of security said.

Diamond took a closer look at the screen. She saw an empty aisle for a few seconds until a woman walked in with four children— all boys tailing from behind.

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She seemed to be ignoring all her children. She focused on picking a few items, even though the kids were running around the aisle and knocking on a few things.

The scene continued until another woman pushed the shopping cart, which Diamond quickly recognized as her homegirl. Chloe stopped in the aisle, watching the woman and the four boys for a while for an unknown reason.

She was about to walk away, but the boys noticed her and ran towards her. They hogged Chloe's legs as if they were familiar with each other.

The mother of those four boys quickly noticed Chloe, and an argument ensued between them.

The mother of the four boys suddenly attacked Chloe first, and a fight broke out.

Chloe was trying to defend herself, but all she did was yank the hair of the woman. In contrast, the woman mercilessly tried to scratch Chloe's face a few times until one of her attacks succeeded.

People were already gathering around, and the security guards finally separated them.

The four boys hid behind Chloe's legs, and it took a while until they returned to their mom. After that, Chloe was left with scratch wounds on her face.

And the recording stopped.