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The streamers begged,“We didn’t assault you or break anything—pelease us!”
Owen,who’d reviewed the footage,snorted,“Didn’t hit her?You just couldn’t!”
“Defamation,privacy invasion,trespassing,aiding vandalism…That’s a lot of charges.And Lily’s smashing?You encouraged it—you’re on the hook.”
Sean added coolly,“Your streams are banned starting today.You’re blacklisted—banned across all platforms.”
“Why?!”they protested.
“Have you no decency!”I snapped.“You believed one side,didn’t verify,and stormed in to‘publicly shame someone’You got me,but what if it was another woman,wrongly accused?The damage you’d cause!”
“Then we’ll sue you for assaulting us!”they threatened.
“Go ahead,get checked.If you find a bruise,my years of training were for nothing!Owen,dig up their past—sue them for everything!”
Lily’s crimes were bigger.
She permanently scarred a streamer,sliced my hand,and faced fraud charges from the woman in white’s group.
The bald man accused her of child engagement.
Now scared,she knelt,begging me to save her.
“You should’ve thought of this when you barged in.Figure it out in prison.”
I stepped back,done with her.
She tried appealing to Jake’s past feelings.
But realizing her love was fake,he grew angrier,asking Owen to make her repay every cent she’d scammed from him.
The streamers and Lily were buried in debt and jailed.
Lily had to repay my losses and her past scams.
This mess inspired me.
I founded a nonprofit for women hurt by infidelity,offering free volunteer and legal aid.
I didn’t want them exploited by streamers for clout.
As for the bald man,I investigated for him.
Lily had tried to terminate her pregnancy but couldn’t due to health issues,so she gave birth.
She abandoned the baby on the street,and it ended up in child services.
I reunited the child with the bald man,who cried tears of joy.
Years later,I saw a garishly dressed woman on the street,soliciting men.
Thinking she might be desperate,I approached to help.
It was Lily.
Her nose was crooked,her mouth misaligned—botched surgeries from shady clinics,surgeries neglected in prison.
Despite her punishment,she hadn’t changed,still reverting to her scams.
Not worth forgiving.
I turned and left her to her fate.
