Mysterious Mrs. Pansy

“Is that so?” Patrick’s cold gaze swept over Erica.

His powerful and icy aura immediately made Erica feel a huge sense of oppression, and her legs almost gave out.

Erica took a step back, took a deep breath, and forced herself to speak. “Mr. Pansy, what I said is all true. If you don’t believe me, ask the journalists present. They all saw it with their own eyes.”

“Do you have any proof?” Patrick turned his head and asked Jane in a calm tone.

“No,” Jane replied with her arms crossed, looking at Erica as if she found it amusing.

“Hmm. I believe you.”

When Patrick said this, Erica couldn’t believe her eyes.

Everyone saw that Jane and Osborn were disheveled inside the room but Patrick didn’t ask anything more; he just believed them unconditionally.

He trusted this woman so blindly!

Seeing how confident Jane looked like this made Erica suddenly feel uneasy.

She subconsciously clenched her fists with an anxious heart: Could these two people have already planned everything? This is impossible! She clearly had the waiter take away Jane’s phone at the time; there was no way for her to contact Patrick!

Jane’s eyes were cold as she could see through the panic in Erica’s eyes instantly.

Her phone was indeed taken away by that waiter but she had already anticipated everything beforehand.

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At that time when she got off from Patrick’s car, she happened to see Florence’s car parked not far away.

Jane knew very well about Florence’s hostility towards her.

One should never harbor evil intentions while guarding against others’ evil intentions.

Jane told Patrick that if he couldn’t contact her after half an hour inside then please come over here.

Sure enough, everything went exactly as she expected it would be…

Erica also realized what had happened now – She was the one who fell into their trap!

Just when Erica wanted to say something more,

the restaurant manager who came in together with Patrick stepped forward,

cleared his throat and said: “Miss Terry,

I heard you say earlier that you want to check surveillance footage

to prove your innocence; of course we can do this.”

“I’ve already retrieved it,” he continued while taking out a USB drive

and plugging it into the TV in the lounge area.

The big screen on TV started playing footage where two waitresses poured drinks for Jane and Osborn…

They emptied out bottles of alcohol & beverages they brought along before rinsing them several times before refilling them again…

Then they rushed over to lounge area afterwards…

After watching this video clip everyone began discussing animatedly…

“I didn’t expect this drink to be a problem!”

“So these two had already switched the drinks, no wonder there were no issues when we drank it earlier.”

“It seems like we really misunderstood Miss North and Mr. Maltz…”

The two waiters’ faces changed multiple times, they never expected their process of destroying evidence to be recorded!

Erica was also shocked, weren’t these two idiots saying that the kitchen wasn’t monitored?

She took a deep breath and calmly said, “This doesn’t prove anything about me. It’s just that these two waiters drugged them and wanted to harm them. I don’t know the truth, so it’s normal for there to be misunderstandings.”

As long as there is no concrete evidence, she will deny any involvement. Jane can’t do anything to her!

While Erica spoke confidently, she glanced at Jane with a hint of pride.

She thought that Jane bringing up Patrick would bring some sort of evidence but it was irrelevant.

The two waiters looked panicked and afraid as they looked at Erica who immediately glared back at them.

They understood what she meant and quickly apologized to Jane while crying,

“Sorry Miss North! We were jealous of you both so we did this in order to ruin your reputation with Mr. Maltz!”

Osborn frowned,”Jane and I have nothing against you guys nor have we ever met before. Isn’t this reason too far-fetched?”

“Who told you guys to do this?” asked Jane sternly as she stood up suddenly.

“No one… no one told us…” The two waiters were taken aback by Jane’s aura which made them take a few steps back involuntarily.

“We…”

These people exchanged looks before finally coming up with an excuse,”Because we are Larry Burns’ fans. Mr. Maltz has always been suppressing him; he even snatched away his Golden Horse Award for Best Actor . As long as he is ruined then our idol will finally have his day!”

Larry Burns? Osborn furrowed his brows; Larry Burns was a male star under Star Entertainment’s rival company who had been seen as an opponent for years now due to their constant behind-the-scenes actions against each other.

But still.. this reason seemed too far-fetched.

“Now that everything has come out into the open, I’ll leave first, Mrs. Pansy I’m sorry for misunderstanding Miss North.” Erica said unwillingly.

Her plan was supposed flawless but now it failed again!

Florence would definitely scold her later on but right now escaping was more important.

When plans fail, it’s best just run away!

As Erica hurried to leave, Jane’s lips curled into a sarcastic smile and she stepped forward to block her. “Miss Terry, don’t be in such a rush to leave. The show isn’t over yet,” she said.

Since Erica had schemed to drug her and harm her, there was no way Jane would let her go so easily.

Jane glanced down at the watch on her wrist with indifference.

Erica’s expression stiffened as she suppressed the jealousy in her heart and forced out a smile. “Miss North, I misunderstood you earlier. It was my mistake. I apologize for that. I have important matters to attend to now, so I’ll take my leave.”

With that said, Erica pushed past Jane and turned around to leave.

But before she could even reach the door of the hallway, Anthony walked in with four or five police officers wearing uniforms.

Erica was blocked off by them and had no choice but to retreat back inside.

What was going on?

Why did even Anthony come here?

And why were there so many police officers present?

Erica felt nervous as cold sweat formed on the palms of her hands.

Previously when Freda tried framing Jane but ended up being exposed by Jane herself publicly instead, it was Anthony who helped confirm evidence proving Freda’s scheme against Jane.

Could it be that now… Jane really had some kind of evidence against them?

Feeling somewhat guilty, Erica looked towards Jane only for their eyes meeting – those coldly penetrating eyes made Erica shiver involuntarily.

“Mr. Pansy,” one of the policemen respectfully addressed Patrick while saying: “We received reports about someone intentionally drugging others here; we brought along our forensic team for investigation.”

“Mm-hmm.” Patrick responded indifferently with just one word

Anthony walked up beside Jane and asked: “How is everything? Miss North? Did I arrive too late?”

“Thank you very much for coming here today.” With a smile on her face as she spoke these words of gratitude towards him, Jane’s icy gaze fell upon Erica whose voice sounded chilly as she continued speaking: “Miss Terry since you insist that you’re innocent then please cooperate fully with this investigation conducted by these police officers; after all if it truly has nothing do with you then this will help clear your name won’t it?”