Astraea suddenly stopped me, her laugh sounding mocking. “Cooper family? Audrey, are you not thinking straight? You truly believe you are the child of the ship king Cooper family?”
“Maybe nobody here knows yet? This Mrs. Gutierrez has always believed she is the secret child of the ship king Cooper family! She acts gentle and high-class, but really? She likely imagines every day about how to become tied to the Cooper family! But the real sons and daughters of the Cooper family, do they even know who she is?”
The laughter from below became even stronger.
“No surprise President Gutierrez turned away, this Mrs. Gutierrez is truly very unstable, enough to be taken to a mental hospital!”
“To stop herself from being sold, she only pulls out a cheap bracelet and claims it is the Cooper family token. Mrs. Gutierrez is truly laughable!”
The loud laughing kept ringing in my head, my hand that held the bracelet shaking without control.
But it was not from fear; it was from anger.
“You don’t trust it?” I lifted the bracelet. “This cruise ship will go through the Cooper family waters. Just ask someone from the Cooper family to check it, and then you will see if it is real or fake.”
There were only thirty minutes left before the cruise ship reached the Cooper family's sea.
To watch me fully fall low, Astraea coldly smiled, then slowly sat in the front seat.
“Fine, then we wait. When the Cooper family arrives, we will see if you are still this bold.”
“If you truly come from the Cooper family, I will kneel and bow to say sorry to you, and I will also act like a dog and crawl away from here!”
My eyes brightened. “Astraea, you say this, don’t break your promise.”
The time moved little by little, and the cruise ship soon moved close to the Cooper family sea.
After many years, the one managing this sea area had already changed to someone I did not know.
He seemed like someone from a collateral branch of the Cooper family.
When he saw Waylon, Walter greeted him in a pleasing way.
Astraea stood before him, then slowly stepped aside, letting him notice me tied there.
“Mr. Cooper, President Gutierrez’s wife has lost her mind, saying she is from the Cooper family. Look, do you know her?”
Walter had just started his role not long ago, and I left home very early.
I did not know him, and of course, he did not know me either.
Noticing Walter’s puzzled look, Astraea’s smile grew bigger. She told the bodyguards to grab the bracelet and give it to him.
“Then this bracelet, do you know it? She says it is the Cooper family token!”
For a short time, everyone there stayed quiet, waiting for Walter’s answer, and also waiting for me to be fully pushed down.
Walter took the bracelet and looked at it closely, then let out a cold sound. “Using some trash and saying it comes from the Cooper family? I think you want to die!”
The whole area burst out again.
“Totally embarrassed! What reason does Audrey have now?”
“If you ask me, she is not from the Cooper family at all, just making excuses to delay time, not wanting to be sold!”
“Right, based on the auction rules, goods that do not follow orders should have their arms and legs broken and be thrown into the sea to feed fish!”
Those men believed I had fully lost any support; they ignored the bodyguards blocking them, walked onto the platform, and were about to stretch their dirty hands toward me.
I was bound, only able to move away in a clumsy way, but in one careless moment, I stepped into the open cage behind me.
“Looks like you can’t wait anymore? Don’t worry, little sister, even if you are something used by President Gutierrez, I won’t mind you!”
The men moved closer, ignoring my fight, trying to rip my clothes.
I fought back strongly, shouted coldly, “Of course, he does not know this bracelet, because he is only from a side branch of the Cooper family! How can he know the Cooper family’s private items?”
“Stop!”
This time, the one who cut me off was Waylon.
“Audrey, how long will you keep believing this lie?”
Walter had long used the Cooper family name to act proudly, and what he hated most was others saying he came from a collateral branch.
My words made him very angry.
Walter’s face became pale. “Waylon, it seems your wife is unhappy with me.”
Walter was tied to Waylon’s position. How could Waylon ignore it? He quickly made his choice, fully separating himself from me.
“This woman, I only brought her here to punish her.”
“Audrey, today I won’t bother with you; deal with it yourself!”
After Waylon finished speaking, the excited men below became fully uncontrolled.
“Mrs. Gutierrez, come here, isn’t it only twenty thousand? I will buy you!”
One dirty hand after another touched me. I forced myself to endure the disgust, remembering their faces one by one.
“I will not make things easy for you.”
Astraea walked forward and slapped me.
“Still talking nonsense before dying! Bodyguards, take off her clothes, throw her into the crowd, let everyone enjoy…”
Before she finished speaking, a group of skilled men in black suddenly rushed in from afar.
At the same time, Walter, who was acting proudly earlier, was already gone, replaced by another man with a stronger look and presence.
“I want to see who dares to touch Diego Cooper’s sister.”
