udia bit her red lips, her eyes wet and filled with gloom.


    I was shocked beyond words when I saw her standing behind Nichs and me. I had no idea how long she had been there, watching.


    She might have been there for hours, witnessing everything Nichs did to humiliate me. Her eyes were red, and she seemed overwhelmed. She abandoned all pretense and acted purely on instinct. As I lowered my head, she rushed over, grabbed the scissors from the floor, and cut my hair again.


    "Give me Nick back to me! Give him back to me!" she screamed hysterically.


    At that moment, time seemed to pause. No one spoke or moved. Only my hair fell silently to the ground. Each strand felt as heavy as a thousand pounds, crushing my heart.


    The Hawk family had bullied me for far too long.


    Summoning strength that I didn''t know I had, I quickly picked up the dog shaver from the floor before. grabbing udia''s hair and pulling her down. I pressed the shaver to her scalp and shaved a patch of her


    hair.


    "You like cutting people''s hair, huh?" I shrieked. "Well, I prefer shaving heads!"


    Seeing the white, soft patch of her scalp exposed, Iughed. However, it wasn''t enough. It wasn''t until I started a second pass that she realized what was happening and began to cry and struggle.


    I had very little strength left, especially after what Nichs had done to me. The difference in our physical strength was vast, and when he pushed me with one hand, I couldn''t resist.


    With a loud bang, I mmed into the wall. The pain in my back was excruciating. It felt like my internal organs had shifted.


    Nichs was always partial to udia. I was used to it. As I watched them embrace, I told myself i wasn''t upset. I coldly observed the scene andughed,


    While holding udia, Nichs nced at me with an ugly expression. "How dare you hurt her!" he snapped.


    My eyes burned, but I had no desire to argue with him.


    "I''ll deal with youter," he growled, his anger intensifying with my silence.


    I watched as he carried udia out, thinking that the drama was finally over. But then, unexpectedly, he returned, still carrying udia. Pete and Neal, followed by ten officers, forced their way in. Though every man in the room was mature, the strange smell in the air made the inexperienced young officers blush, while the battle-hardened men stared directly at me. Among them was Pete. When he frowned, intending to scold me, he froze at the sight of my hair that was cut unevenly like it had been chewed by a dog.


    He rushed over and grabbed my arm tightly before asking, "It''s only been a few hours! What happened?" He bent down to pick up the hair on the floor, his hands shaking. I pped the hair out of his hand and N?velDrama.Org holds this content.


    said, "Don''t touch that. It''s dirty."


    The hair he was picking up wasn''t mine-it was udia''s. My own hair had scattered all over the ce where Nichs humiliated me.


    Pete stared at me, his clear eyes misting over. I realized I needed to exin. "That''s not my hair."


    He sighed with relief before turning to shield me and be the carefree, mischievous guy I knew. Hurry up," hemanded.


    Neal stepped forward, addressing Nichs, shouting, "Put her down!" He pulled out an arrest warrant and held it up to Nichs. "You can''t take her away!"


    "I can put her down, but nobody is taking her away. She''s a member of the Hawk family," Nichs sald with a sneer.


    He disliked being threatened. It had been years since anyone dared to speak to him this way. His lips curled in disdain.


    udia clung tightly to his clothes, fearing she would be left behind. Nichs patted her shoulder gently to calm her down.


    He looked up at Pete and calmly asked, "Mr. Shelman, what do you think you''re doing here?:


    His piercing gaze sent a shiver down my spine. Standing behind Pete, I couldn''t help but notice his eyes, and my body weakened, causing me to lean back against the wall.


    Pete shifted slightly, standing even more firmly in front of me.


    He said, "Nick, I''m just here helping with an investigation. ording to themander of the Criminal Investigation Division, Neal Steele, we''re allw-abiding citizens here. You wouldn''t want to interfere with police duties, would you?"