The Unstoppable Comeback Of the Unrivaled Ex-Wife-Chapter 332 - 328

After hearing Chase’s words, Joanna became even more confident of her suspicions. She quickly pulled her two children aside and warned them," Close your eyes first. Wait until I confirm that there’s nothing inside there that’s inappropriate for children, and you can open your eyes."

Then, Joanna turned to Mr. Q and said, "You don’t have to open the door. I’m not interested in your perverted things. As long as you admit before my children that you’re a bad guy and promise to stay away from them in the future, that’s enough."

Joanna had considered many things and was worried that the pervert would attack indiscriminately if he were exposed, so she planned to take her children away before figuring out how to save whoever was inside the room.

Mr. Q ignored her and ordered Chase again, "I said to open the door. Didn’t you hear me?"

"Um..."

Even though Chase was visibly unhappy, he didn’t dare disobey a direct order from his boss. He pulled out the key and opened the door.

"Watch out!" Joanna stepped back instinctively with her two children.

However, there was no movement inside the room for a long time.

"Don’t hide anymore. You’ve been clamoring to come out, so come on out and let Miss Pierce see how ’bad’ our boss really is," Chase said, calling out into the room.

The lighting inside the room was poor, and it was impossible to see what was happening. Still, there was no movement even after Chase had spoken.

Then, Mr. Q spoke in a cold and threatening tone, ’Come out!"

Only then did a woman cautiously appear.

The woman was dressed plainly, and her hair was messy. She was thin, and her sunken eye sockets made her look like a skeleton. However, she was much more presentable than Joanna had imagined.

"W-who... are you?"

Joanna felt that the woman was a little familiar.

"You can leave now if you want, but don’t come crying to us for help when you have nowhere to go!" Chase said as he glared at the woman angrily, feeling both pity and fury at her.

"I remember now! You’re that con artist I met before!" Joanna exclaimed, pointing at the woman as the realization struck her.

The woman looked at Joanna and then lowered her head. Choking back tears, she said, "I’m sorry, Mr. Q. I was wrong. Thank you for giving me a chance to turn my life around. I thought about it and decided to continue staying in this room. I don’t want to leave!"

Seeing the woman about to return to the small dark room, Joanna quickly stopped her and said, "This guy must have threatened you, so you’re afraid to resist, right? Don’t be scared. I’ll help you! I’ll make sure he faces legal consequences for his crimes!"

Since things have reached this point, Joanna naturally wouldn’t give up on the chance to expose Mr. Q’s true colors.

"Legal consequences?"

The woman looked up with an incredulous expression.

"Mr. Q is such a good person! How could he have committed any crimes? If not for him, I would have died long ago, and my son would have starved to death. It was my fault for stealing from his pawnshop, but he didn’t punish me. In fact, he saved me!"

"What?!" Joanna looked at the woman in disbelief. She reached out to grasp her shoulders as if trying to give her strength. "I told you, you don’t have to be afraid. He’s a bad person, and I need you to come forward to expose him. Otherwise, who knows what he’d do to my children!"

"But Mr. Q really isn’t a bad person. Although there are a lot of ugly rumors out there about him, they remain nothing but rumors! Those hypocrites tried to slander him... Don’t believe a word they say!"

"But if he’s so good, why did he lock you up in this small, dark room? Are you a masochist?!"

"Um..." The woman hesitated to speak as if she had difficulty expressing her thoughts.

"If you’re in any trouble, just let me know. I’ll shoulder the consequences for you. But if you insist on protecting a bad person, then I won’t care about you!"

Joanna was a little angry when she saw how the pitiful woman so quickly shouldered the blame when she’d done nothing wrong.

It was precisely because of their weakness that the evil had become so rampant.

After all, it would "cost" nothing to be evil.

"No, you’ve misunderstood! I’m not trying to protect a bad person! I just..."

The woman took a deep breath and mustered up her courage before continuing, "Fine. I don’t want you to misunderstand Mr. Q, so I’ll be honest. I’m a single mother, and it’s been hard raising my child all alone. At one point, I couldn’t even afford to eat. I had to work in a nightclub, which was filled with bad hats. I unknowingly got involved with them.

"One time, a client tricked me. Mr. Q and Chase saved me. They gave me a job and let me live a normal life. But... I’d developed an addiction. I sometimes spent my money on it and couldn’t make ends meet.

Eventually, I lost my mind momentarily and stole a treasure from Carmine Pawnshop, and that was when you bumped into me..."

"I know about that part. Weren’t you punished after that? Did they imprison you because of what happened?" Joanna was extremely shocked after listening to the woman’s story.

"No!" the woman denied. "Mr. Q has a soft heart. He said if I was really punished, my son wouldn’t have a mother by now. He gave me a way out. As for the imprisonment... it was at my own request."

"You asked for it?" Joanna was even more surprised.

"Yes!" the woman nodded rapidly, her eyes red, and said bitterly, "I want to get over my addiction, and this was the only way I could think of. I’ve endured it for many days, and I feel like I only need a little more effort before I can quit for good.

"During this time, Mr. Q has been taking care of my son, and I’m very grateful to him. Mr. Q is the best person I’ve ever met! He’s not at all like the rumors say, and I won’t allow anyone to slander him!"

After that, the woman knelt before Mr. Q and said in a firm voice, "Mr. Q, I can never repay your kindness. If possible, I’m willing to give my life to protect you!"

Mr. Q looked down at the kneeling woman like a king sitting on a throne, high above everyone else. "I don’t need you to protect me. You just need to take care of yourself and your child."

"Thank you, Mr. Q. Rest assured, I won’t disappoint you. I’ll succeed this time and won’t ask to be let out again!"

After bowing to Joanna, the woman returned to the small dark room and closed the door behind her.

Joanna stood rooted to the spot, stunned. She looked at the closed door, lost in thought. She never expected things to turn out this way!

Chase sighed with annoyance and frustration before looking at Joanna with a somewhat disappointed look, expressing his displeasure.

"Miss Pierce, I thought we were friends, especially since the boss cares about you and is so good to your children. He has been cooped up in the kitchen recently to improve his cooking skills just to make

delicious food for all of you...

"But instead of appreciating him, you thought so poorly of him. Is there any trust between us now?"

Joanna knew she was in the wrong and awkwardly lowered her head.

"I’m sorry, I let my thoughts run too far. After all, you don’t have the best of reputations."

"You would rather believe in rumors than what you’ve actually seen. When our boss was with you, did you feel he was a bad person? What did he do to harm you? Don’t you think-"

"Shut up, Chase!" Mr. Q coldly interrupted Chase’s rant.

He stood with his hands in his pockets and said flatly, "I’m not a good person. There’s no need to praise me and place me on a pedestal. I only have no ill intentions toward Adie and Abby. I only want them to be happy."

The man’s words touched Joanna. Besides Nancy and the Osborne siblings, who else was sincerely nice to her two children?

Mr. Q’s "love" truly touched her.

"Mommy, see? I didn’t lie to you. Q really is a good man, so you don’t have to be on guard with him. Try to get along with him, and let him protect and care for you," Aiden said as he held the warm hands of Joanna and Mr. Q.