Because You Are My Lady novel (Sharon and Stanley)
Chapter 547

After listening to her father's words, Ariah still looked indifferent.

She then turned back to Jimmy, asking, "Did you take advantage of Lindsey?"

Jimmy replied with his eyebrows raised. "Do you believe that?"

"Nope."

"Oh?" Jimmy was a little surprised. There were so many witnesses testifying that he harassed Lindsey and Lindsey's clothes were even torn apart, which made it look like he really did those things. "Why?" Jimmy asked.

Ariah glanced at him. "I know what kind of women you like."

She was implying that he didn't like women like Lindsey. Besides, with his money and status, he could have hooked up with women who were ten times better than Lindsey.

Slowly, a smile spread across Jimmy's face as he affirmed, "That's right. You're the kind that I like."

Ariah was speechless.

The two of them had lowered their voices and spoke from a distance. But to be honest, Ariah didn't really care even if the Myers overheard them.

She believed Jimmy wouldn't do anything that crossed the line.

Besides, Jimmy was good at scheming. He wouldn't try to cheat on her at her home.

Thinking about that, Ariah walked towards Lindsey, who was still sobbing, and asked, "Did Jimmy really harass you?"

Instantly, Lindsey spoke vehemently. "Ariah, he made an excuse of picking up your stuff and when I took him upstairs, he hugged me and even tried to undress me. I struggled and refused, but he said that he misses me and regrets that he didn't marry me. I'm telling the truth! Believe me!"

While saying that, Lindsey was thinking that maybe she could sow discord between Jimmy and Ariah even if she didn't manage to slander Jimmy.

She believed that Ariah wouldn't be able to bear the fact that her husband was harassing her sister...

However, Ariah looked calm and only spoke after a long time, "What was Jimmy looking for?"

Lindsey was speechless.

That wasn't the point of this at all!

Meanwhile, a servant interrupted and answered for her, "He said he was looking for your teddy bear. Didn't you ask him to find it?"

"Oh, I see. I remember now." Although Ariah said that calmly, inside, she was puzzled. Since when did she ask him to look for her teddy bear? What the hell was Jimmy up to?

Nevertheless, she cleared her throat and said, "Now that I think about it, I did ask Jimmy to help me find my teddy bear."

The maid was dumbfounded by her change of attitude.

On the other hand, Jimmy couldn't bear to watch her anymore because she really sucked at lying.

"That's enough!" Felix's face had turned livid. "Ariah, this has nothing to do with you. Just ask Jimmy to explain! If he still refuses, I'm afraid I'll have to ask Minister Hudson to solve this." Ariah rebuked faintly, "Well, he's my husband and he's being wronged, so of course, this has something to do with me. I have to defend him."

"He's being wronged?" Felix sneered. "Tsk, all the witnesses and the evidence point to him."

The witnesses were the servants, and the evidence was Lindsey's torn clothes.

Obviously, Jimmy was at a disadvantage.

With a frown, Ariah turned to look at Lindsey, who didn't seem like lying as her eyes were swollen from crying.

"Um..." At the same time, Emily, who had been standing in the corner, came up and stared at Lindsey's face for a long while before she slowly said, "Ariah is right. Jimmy deserves a chance to be defended." Felix frowned. "Who are you?"

Ariah then explained, "She's a friend of mine."

"We don't need an outsider to intervene with our family's business."

"Mr. Myers, I'm not an outsider. I'm gonna be Ariah's sister-in-law soon, which makes me kinda part of your family, too," said Emily with a smile.

Ariah couldn't help but laugh.

Emily's serious manner had made Felix even angry now.

Winking at Ariah, Emily then looked at Lindsey and continued, "I think you're not telling the truth, Miss. Jimmy didn't take advantage of you."

Hearing that, Lindsey glared at her and snapped, "Oh, really? What do you know? Stop talking nonsense! And why would I lie about my innocence?" "Oh well, that, I have no idea, but I once learned about micro-expressions, which are facial expressions that occur within a fraction of a second. This involuntary emotional leakage can expose a person's true emotions..."

"Just now, your acting was quite good, but your micro- expression betrayed you. When you said that Jimmy harassed you, you took a glance up to the right, which is a signal of deceit. Besides, your speech was incoherent and you're quite loud, which is a sign of lying too."

After Emily said that, not only was the Myers Family shocked, even Ariah saw her differently.

Surprisingly, Emily was an expert in this.

It was wise to bring her along today.

Meanwhile, Lindsey was taken aback and stammered, "H-how can you say that I'm lying just based on that? That's ridiculous!"

Right then, Ariah turned her gaze towards the maid and asked, "Hazel, are you sure you saw with your own eyes that Jimmy harassed Lindsey?"

After a short pause, Hazel answered vaguely, "Ah... When we got upstairs, she was already standing there crying... So I thought she must be harassed..."

Hearing that, Ariah suddenly smiled. "Hazel, have you forgotten that Jimmy is a cop? I'm sure you're aware that it's a crime to lie and to frame someone into what they didn't do, right?"

Hazel, who had been working humbly all her life, was shocked and quickly clarified, "Actually, I didn't see Lindsey being harassed. When I went up, I only saw her screaming and Mr. Hudson stood far away. His clothes were neat and he didn't look like he had done those things..."

Getting Hazel's reply, Ariah turned to look at Felix with a triumph smile.

Felix furrowed his brows tightly and looked at his little daughter with a gloomy face, asking, "Lindsey, what happened?"

"Dad, even you don't believe me?" Lindsey's tears fell again, and her heart was panicked. She thought that she could slander Jimmy with her own words, but things turned out differently now. Having no choice, Lindsey decided to get away by pretending dumb. "Well, it seems like you all decided to believe in this outsider's words. Fine, leave me alone then!"

"Lindsey, that's not what I meant..."

"Dad, I know you would rather believe in an outsider than me your own daughter!"

Lindsey said as she ran upstairs. But as soon as she turned around, a man blocked her way.

Jimmy's deep and cold voice sounded above her. "Tsk, are you gonna leave just like that?"

Did she think she could fool around with him?

He had not said anything all this while because he wanted to see when she would stop.

Seeing his cold expression, Lindsey was frightened and couldn't help but step back. "Wh-what do you want?"