Chapter 360: It's Just Painting

Hazel was not as brazen as Joshua, but she leaned into his arms.

Hearing Fred’s query, Hazel couldn’t stop herself from looking at Joshua with concern. Indeed, he was undoubtedly showing that he would protect her even if she did something wrong.

“Unreasonable? Concealing mistakes?” Joshua looked at Fred with a smile on his face. “I don’t understand. Did Director Cohen misunderstand something? It’s Denmark Residence here, and it belongs to me. Hazel is my girlfriend, what’s wrong with her living here?”

Everyone was dumbstruck. They wanted to drive Hazel away because they thought Denmark Residence was left by Marcus and Cate for their daughter, and with her identity unknown, Hazel was not qualified to live there. They thought they had come up with the perfect reason and, even if Hazel was bold, should live there any longer.

But they all forgot that the Denmark Residence belonged to Joshua, and since Hazel was his girlfriend, she could live there, they had no way to refute it.

“Gentlemen, you want to get my girlfriend to move out of my house. Don’t think you’re being too unreasonable?” Joshua said.

The directors’ faces were red, and they did not know how to explain it in the least.

“Joshua, even though Denmark Residence belongs to you now, it was your parents’ home. We, like your parents’ friends, cannot let you ruin it like this,” said Fred Cohen in a deep voice.

“Yes, yes!” The other directors nodded as if they had finally found a reason to convince themselves, even if they felt it was a little far-fetched.

“Do you have so much free time that you need to get involved in this situation?” Joshua’s tone became more sarcastic. “Director Cohen, you know that you were friends with my parents, you are not my parents, right?”

“Now that you know Denmark Residence belongs to me, I can deal with it as I wish. If you really want to bother about it, wait until the house is yours. I am presuming you have hoped to take it over for a long time, correct?” Joshua asked.

“Joshua, you…” Fred’s face became pale as he said angrily, “How can you say such heartbreaking things?”

“Heartbreaking?” Joshua looked at him nonchalantly. “I only know that even a gossiper would never meddle in other people’s family affairs. Director Cohen, are you even worse than a gossiper?”

Hazel was shocked. She didn’t expect Joshua to have such a poisonous tongue. It seemed that her distress really made him very irritated. She looked up at Joshua and felt warm, he was so attractive when he was protecting her.

“You…” Fred was horrified. Joshua had always been gentle, and it was the first time that he had humiliated him in public by saying he was a gossiper.

Mandy stealthily tugged at Fred’s sleeve and subtly shook her head. She realized that there was no way to kick Hazel out of Denmark Residence, and it would be more disadvantageous for them to continue. The most important thing was to save Kathie. Only by saving Kathie could they guarantee that the incident wouldn’t incriminate Mandy.

Realizing what she meant, Fred said in a deep tone, “Let’s forget about this, but you must do as we ask when it comes to the incident with Kathie!”

“Yes! Even if you’re the President, you can’t be too partial to Hazel! She must solve the problem that caused on her own!” The other directors echoed.

“She pointed a gun at me and threatened me.” Hazel couldn’t resist defending herself.

“Why would a child have a real gun? It was just a scare tactic. She was just playing with you. Do you need to make a fuss? Are you actually hoping she will blame somebody else?” All the directors continued to condemn her.

Hazel had a cold expression and suddenly bent over and took a gun from the coffee table before pointing it at the directors.

The entire living room was momentarily quiet.

The muzzle of the gun kept moving, everyone tensed up as she slowly went around the room, stopping at Mandy.

Mandy broke into a cold sweat.

Hazel’s gun was exactly the same as the one she secretly replaced and gave Kathie.

“What do you, what do you want?” Mandy stuttered nervously, “Hazel, do you want to kill people?!”

“Hazel Crowe!” Fred glared at Hazel angrily, “Do you want to kill us because you are too ashamed and angry?”

“Kill people? Director Fred is wrong.” Joshua said quietly. “Didn’t you say that Kathie was just playing with Hazel? Hazel’s just playing with you right now.”

Everyone felt instant pain with Joshua’s comment. They were trying to force Hazel to confess, but they were just humiliating themselves over and over. She had a gun pointed at them, what could they say?

“But Kathie is just a kid!” Fred took the initiative to speak first.

“I’m younger than all of you, and I’m also a child!” Hazel looked like she was being persecuted.

“Yeah,” Joshua echoed. “Kathie is only about five years younger than Hazel. Hazel is 20 or 30 years younger than you. She’s just a baby compared to you. Did any of you think of it that way?”

Joshua just continued to make them feel worse. How could he make such a comparison?

Joshua and Hazel were too unreasonable. Worse still, they actually cooperated with each other so perfectly and were both so thick-skinned… But all of the words he spoke were words that they used against Hazel; they couldn’t accuse them at all.

“You, you can't count on a fake gun to scare us!” Mandy yelled and clenched her teeth. She didn’t have the knowledge if the gun was real or not, so she could guess that it wasn’t a real gun.

“Oh?” An evil smile curved Hazel's lips, and she calmly pulled the trigger.

“Ah!” Mandy just felt something hit her forehead, and she was so scared that she immediately fell to the ground. She felt a liquid running down her forehead, she wiped it with her hand in a panic. When she saw a red liquid on her fingertips, she screamed in terror, “Blood! Blood! Take me to the hospital!”

“Don’t be afraid, Mandy. It's just painting.” Fred quickly squatted down to help her wipe the red paint from her forehead.

Mandy shuddered for a while. Looking at Hazel with a smile on her face, she was furious. So, everything that Hazel had done was just to try and scare her?

“The police took the real gun as evidence,” Hazel said with a chuckle. “This is a paintball gun. Just because I was curious, I asked Joshua to help me buy one.”