Sweet May-December Marriage

Chapter 161 Charlotte Holmes

Chapter 161 Charlotte Holmes

Many people nodded in agreement.

Hazel sighed in relief and turned to Charlotte with embarrassment and sadness, "Ms. Lopez, I sincerely invited you to my home, but you wrongly accused me of stealing your bracelet. You will not be welcome in my home anymore in the future. Please leave immediately."

Charlotte had a good temper, but Cecilia didn't. No one in Srolanya High School had ever dared to mess with her because of her family background and her own strength. Those spoiled rich kids were no match for her. She smiled coldly and said, "Mrs. Cole, are you trying to force me to do something before you open the safe?"

Hazel was so frightened that she took a step back. She was frightened by a young girl!

"I told you I didn't steal it! There are very precious things in the safe. Why should I open it?" Hazel replied, pretending to be unafraid.

Cecilia ignored her and turned to look at Arthur, "Kid, are you sure the bracelet is in the safe?"

Hazel immediately stared at Arthur with cold, warning eyes as if she would eat him alive if he dared to say yes.

Arthur's thin shoulders shrank. He was scared of his stepmother, who had been bullying him for a long time.

Charlotte raised her hand and touched his head, "Don't worry. I will protect you."

Arthur glanced at her and nodded vigorously, "It's in the safe. She puts everything important in the safe!"

"Arthur!" Hazel screamed.

Cecilia pushed the fat middle-aged woman away, pulled a clip from Eloise's hair, and squatted in front of the safe. Maxwell suddenly jumped out and wrapped his arms around the safe tightly. He refused to let go of it and said, "Don't touch it! This is my thing! Don't touch it!"

Cecilia had never liked this uneducated, wild boy. Without thinking, she picked him up and threw him to the bed aside. Then she quickly opened the lock with the hairpin.

This safe was a very old model. It was not a combination lock but a solid, small copper lock. It was tough to break open.

Eloise gasped in shock, and her face was full of admiration, "Cecilia! You can open locks!"

Cecilia kept trying to open the lock and replied, "I learned it from a friend. His dad specializes in opening locks."

The lock clicked when she finished her sentence, and the safe was opened.

Everyone craned their necks to look inside the safe.

Cecilia took out everything in the safe, including passbooks, bank cards, marriage certificates, birth certificates, and jewelry. However, after the safe was emptied, no bracelet was found.

Hazel's face was covered with tears, "Are you happy now?! I said I didn't steal it! I will sue you when the police arrive!"

She touched her son's cheek and looked like a poor mother being bullied.

The neighbors were angry, "As I said, Hazel is not that kind of person! But you still insisted on opening her safe!"

"In my opinion, this is thieves casing. First, they find out how many things are in someone's home so they can easily steal them later!"

"Hazel is so wronged! It's you who should go to the police station!"

"..."

Eloise glanced at Charlotte awkwardly, "Char...did we make a mistake?"

Charlotte frowned and shook her head slightly, "It's her."

Eloise also felt that Hazel had taken the bracelet. Arthur had said confidently that the bracelet was in the safe, but there was no bracelet inside after the safe was opened.

Hazel cried miserably, "Look! I've raised Arthur as my son, but it turns out that he's so ungrateful! He's helping outsiders deal with her stepmother! Why is he doing this to me?"

The neighbors all accused Arthur of being ungrateful.

Arthur's face turned pale, and his lips were trembling. Charlotte looked at him worriedly and patted him on the back, "Don't be afraid."

Arthur raised his head and looked at Charlotte's gentle eyes. He suddenly wasn't afraid anymore.

Yes, what should he be afraid of? The worst-case scenario was that he would be beaten to death.

Eloise folded her arms and looked around the bedroom, "Since the bracelet is not in the safe, you must have hidden it somewhere else!"

"You! You!" Hazel was so angry that she stuttered, "Are you going to search the whole house?"

"Don't go too far! Get out of here!" A middle-aged woman stretched out her hand to drag Eloise, "You liars! Get out of here!"

More enthusiastic neighbors joined her as soon as she took action, determined to drive away this group of liars.

Cecilia frowned impatiently and was about to take action when Charlotte quickly said, "Don't! They are all ordinary people, and they might be injured."

She took Magnolia from Arthur's arms and said, "Everyone, be quiet for a moment. I know where the bracelet is hidden."

Everyone fell silent and looked at Charlotte.

Charlotte touched Magnolia's head and said, "Go find it."

Magnolia immediately barked and ran around the room happily. Eloise said, "...Will it work?"

Charlotte said, "Of course."

Magnolia suddenly stopped, whined, and pounced directly toward Maxwell.

The boy who claimed he liked dog meat was so frightened that he burst into tears and called for his mother. Hazel panicked and quickly wanted to pick up her son, but Charlotte moved faster and lifted a red thread from Maxwell's neck.

Under the light, hanging on the red thread, was a crystal-green bracelet!

The whole place was in an uproar.

Hazel's eyes widened in horror. How did this bitch know it?Nôvel/Dr(a)ma.Org - Content owner.

Eloise quickly took the bracelet off the red thread and said, "Look! Didn't you say you didn't steal it?"

The faces of Hazel's neighbors changed drastically, and they all looked at Hazel in disbelief.

Cecilia frowned and asked Charlotte, "How do you know the bracelet is on Maxwell?"

Charlotte shook her head and said, "I didn't know that. But when you put him on the bed just now, I saw the red thread around his neck, and he was wearing an extra coat than before. So I guessed the bracelet might be hung around his neck."

Eloise handed the bracelet to Charlotte and looked at her with raised eyebrows, "Well done, Charlotte Holmes."

Hazel was a wise woman, after all. When she saw it was exposed, she immediately dragged her son over and slapped her, "Maxwell! How could you steal things?"

Eloise, Cecilia, and Charlotte were all shocked.

Damn it! What was she doing?

She would be legally held responsible if Hazel had stolen the bracelet, which cost tens of millions. But if she blamed it on Maxwell, a four or five-year-old boy, and claimed he had stolen the bracelet for fun... what could the police do to him?