Chapter 3

When I didn't respond, she just smashed up my office.

Smashing away, she loudly griped about me the whole time.

"As my besties bestie, you actually dare not help me get a divorce?"

"You're a useless lawyer anyway! Today baby's doing the world a favor and trashing this dump of yours!"

On the surface, I looked startled by what she was doing.

Inside, though, I was already calculating how much the stuff she'd broken was worth.

Smash it, smash it!

If she broke it all, I could replace it all with new ones.

By the time the police arrived on the scene,

Nellie instantly switched back to her pitiful little face and threw her arms around one officer's leg.

"Officer sir~ baby's so wronged~"

She raised a hand and pointed at me. "That mean woman bullied baby~"

"Baby just wanted to ask her to help baby divorce baby's horrible husband! And she cursed at baby! She even hit baby!"

"Officer sirs, arrest her right now! She hurt baby this badly—arresting her would be doing the public a favor!"

These officers didn't look much older than her, and she still had the nerve to call them "uncle."

I'd thought she was just a bit childish and naive, but it turned out she really did treat herself like a kid.

The officer patiently asked her for the details.

She just kept complaining about me.

"Sir~ you have to help baby! She cursed at baby and bullied baby~ boo hoo hoo~"

"Baby's never been wronged like this before! She's a bad person! Arrest her!"

Black ellipses popped up on the officer's forehead.

I pulled up the surveillance footage from earlier.

"She ran in covered in blood, saying she'd been beaten and locked up. I don't know the details."

With the evidence airtight, Nellie was to be taken back to the police station so they could look into what actually happened.

Nellie lied and claimed the matter had to do with me, so I got taken along too.

At the station, I roughly explained my relationship with Nellie and what had happened.

Nellie just kept trying to pin everything on me.

When the police saw there was no reasoning with her, they called her husband, Jason Chavez.

Nellie failed to stop them, so she threw another fit right there in the station.

"You're all bad people! Why did you make baby's dear husband come here? You're in cahoots with that awful Carolyn Swanson!"

"If dear husband finds out about this, baby's going to get beaten again for being naughty when I go home! Baby doesn't want to be beaten! You bunch of jerks!"

The officers tried to soothe her, telling her they'd protect her and wouldn't let her get beaten.

She didn't tone it down—she only kicked up an even bigger fuss.

"You don't understand! Dear husband hitting me means he loves me! Baby ran away because I'm giving dear husband the silent treatment! Baby doesn't want to see him right now!"

"He hasn't apologized to baby yet! Baby hasn't forgiven him. Baby wanted a divorce to make him realize his mistake!"

"And then that awful Carolyn Swanson had to go and ruin baby's plan! Baby's fine, baby can just go home on my own!"