The man didn’t slow down a bit. On the contrary, he accelerated when he was near Katherine.
Marshall was quick-witted and as he had realized that he wouldn’t be able to protect Katherine now, he
just released Katherine and stepped aside.
In this way, Katherine was directly facing the man. Her mind instantly went blank.
She was one month into the pregnancy and would definitely lose this baby once hit.
While the man was about to strike her, Marshall suddenly lifted his leg and kicked the man at the side.
The man didn’t expect Marshall’s move and wasn’t taking any precautions, so he was just kicked over
to the ground.
Marshall must have used all his might since he also stepped back because of the reacting force.
The man experienced quite a blow and didn’t recover for a while.
Marshall went to hug the ghastly pale Katherine in his arms and asked, “Are you okay?”
Katherine was still protecting her belly and said in a while, “I’m all right.”
Marshall looked down and unwittingly frowned when he sensed Katherine’s behavior. Something fled
right through his mind, but before he can grasp the image, the idea had disappeared.
Marshall then turned to the man in the ground sternly.
His leg was even a bit numb because of the strong kick.
The man was whining in the ground like he was seriously hurt somewhere.
His earphones were swung aside.
Marshall went to pick them up and didn’t hear a thing.
He paused and searched the man’s pocket for his phone.
The phone wasn’t playing any music.
Marshall sneered and went through the man’s call history.
The latest call was from a few minutes ago and judged from its call duration, it was just hung up
seconds ago.
Marshall’s face immediately darkened.
He stood up and treaded the man on the ribs, “Who sent you here?”
Katherine was shocked by Marshall’s question and turned to Marshall, “He is ordered by someone?”
The man acted like he didn’t hear Marshall’s question and was still shrieking on the ground.
Covering his elbow, the man looked like he was in real pain.
As he wasn’t guarding against Marshall’s sudden kick, the man was propping against his whole body
with his hands when he fell down.
Then his elbow just hit on the ground entirely which sent sharp pain all over his body.
But Marshall didn’t care about him at all and just exerted his strength on his feet more, “Who asked you
to do this?”
There were spectators around debating what was going on.
Licking his back teeth, Marshall let out a gruesome smile, “Do you think you can just get out of this by
keeping silent?”
He then surveyed the man’s phone and then dialed a number with his own phone.
Those bystanders just assumed that he was calling the police or the ambulance and just dispersed
thinking that there was nothing juicy here to see.
The man was so consumed with his elbow pain that he didn’t even try to fight back.
Standing aside, Katherine leaned against a lamp-post.
Her heart was racing crazily, but still, she was clear-minded.
She would only get some bruises at best if she was hit at other times which wasn’t even worth of hiring
someone specifically, so someone must be plotting against her with other motives.
What would happen to her once she was knocked under her current situation was that person’s true
agenda.
Someone must have learned about her pregnancy and didn’t want this baby to be born.
Frances first came to her mind.
Frances was the only one now who knew that she was pregnant and wanted to hurt her.
But Katherine quickly doubted her thought when she recalled Frances’ reaction.
Frances didn’t ever want her to get rid of the baby. Conversely, she was angry later because Katherine
wanted the baby to take her surname.
Frances meant to let the baby take Marshall’s surname.
When she left, she even muttered, “I’m going to be a grandma. How incredible!”
So Frances shouldn’t have schemed this.
But she really couldn’t think of anyone else who would do such a thing.
She didn’t even tell Margaret her pregnancy and Ralph who also knew this was the last person that
would do this to her.
Katherine instantly got muddle-headed.
She had never offended any strangers before.
Katherine glanced at the man who was in obvious agony.
It looked like that he wouldn’t tell any anything for now.
Katherine took a few deep breathes as her belly was acting up for she was so intense before.
A car pulled over and a group of men filed out while she was resting.
Katherine didn’t know them. She thought that Marshall was calling Peter.
Marshall then withdrew his feet and waved his hand to those men impatiently, “Take him away.”
The man didn’t even struggle and was carried onto the car.
Marshall came over and hugged Katherine, “You must be frightened.”
Katherine grasped at Marshall’s hem and said, “I want to go home.”
Marshall nodded, “Okay. Let’s go home.”
They didn’t travel very far and just went back to home quickly.
Lying on the bed, Katherine didn’t feel sleepy at all.
Marshall was in the hallway taking calls.
He seemed to be talking about that man.
Katherine scratched her head and sort out the whole thing in her mind.
Ralph and Frances were only people that learned about her pregnancy and can both be ruled out as
possible suspect.
Other people who didn’t know the baby and would stab her in the back were Clara and Reuben.
Katherine wasn’t sure if Reuben had followed her or not, but judged from his clothing that day, it would
be far-fetched to assume that he paid someone to strike her.
Reuben was clearly in a bad living condition and just wished to get some money from her, so he had no
reason to do so.
Clara must be the one then.
But Clara didn’t know anything about her pregnancy. Moreover, Katherine thought that Clara would find
it beneath her to do such a thing.
Well, there was really no one that she was suspicious of now. Katherine was quite annoyed.
Could this really be an accident?
But that man deliberately scanned her when he charged towards her like he was afraid that she might
dodge.
He must be striking her intentionally.
After finishing all the calls in the hallway, Marshall entered the room.
He then sat on the bed, “My mom is coming over.”
Katherine froze, “Your mom? What does she want?”
Marshall sighed, “My mom just called and I mentioned that you had an accident. She was pretty
worried and wanted to check on you.”
Lips pursed, Katherine failed to say anything.
Marshall then stroked Katherine’s head, “I will have that man interrogated tonight and we’ll see if we
can get any information out of him.”
Staring at Marshall, Katherine asked, “So someone was trying to hurt me on purpose?”
Marshall was a bit confused and sounded hesitant, “I just can’t figure out the reason behind it. You
won’t get any serious injury even if you are hit. What was that person up to?”
Katherine’s eyes blinked and chimed in lowly, “Right.”
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