Ch. 251..255: Divorced My Scum Husband, Married His Evil brother Chapter 251-255

Chapter 251

Gustaff stared at the young woman's body from head to toe. His eyes started to get clouded with lust, "Miss, it's risky for me to tell you about it, but I can do it for an exchange."

Diamond scoffed as a response.

It wasn't her first time facing a man like this, and it certainly wouldn't be her last.

As an ex-model, she had the habit of maintaining her figure, making her the target of some tame catcalling to borderline sexual harassment.

But she never took that kind of shit from anybody. She wasn't an easy target that would accept any kind of harassment.

Diamond looked down at the stout man who was only her shoulder tall. She crossed her arms and replied, "What kind of exchange?"

The man was a little intimidated by her gesture. She was beautiful but also fierce at the same time.

But Gustaff was interested in her body. This woman in front of him had a perfect body with nice boobs, which he had longed to touch for a while.

Gustaff stretched his hand as he wanted to fondle Diamond's boobs.

But Diamond caught his wrist immediately and glared at him, "I asked you, what kind of exchange do you want?"

"Ah—" Gustaff was surprised by the question. He didn't expect this woman to not even flinch when he was about to reach her boobs. He grinned wide, but his eyes still stared straight at her boobs. "Miss, you know what I want, right?"

"I see, so you want to touch me in exchange for the information?" Diamond asked, and Gustaff replied with a firm nod.

"Hah— that's stupid. Are you not scared that you'll get jailed for sexual assault?"

"Oh, Miss, nobody is looking right now. It's fine…."

"Nobody is looking, huh? Let me call someone," Diamond released Gustaff's hand and took a step back. She fished out her phone and called someone.

Gustaff was alerted instantly and thought that Diamond was calling a cop, "Miss, there is no proof of me assaulting you. The police will think that you're lying."

"Oh no, I'm not calling 911. I'm calling someone I know," Diamond said.

It didn't take a while until the line was connected. Diamond asked the man on the phone to come to the school, which was well known to be a prestigious one.

"Mhm, you're patrolling around here? Sure, come here quickly, I need your help," Diamond said.

Diamond hung up the call and looked down at Gustaff again.

Gustaff got nervous about the sudden call and said, "I don't need to tell you anything. I owe you nothing! So get the hell out of the school gate, you cunt!"

"Mhm, I was being so nice because I thought I could pay you or something as a deal so you can tell me. But since it's no deal, then I can use something more coercive," Diamond said.

It only took ten minutes for a police car to drive in and stop right in front of Diamond and Gustaff.

A big, burly man almost seven feet tall came out of the police car and walked towards Diamond.

He stood straight in front of Gustaff and looked down at him, "Is this man giving you trouble?"

"Mhm, he's about to grope me," Diamond replied.

The man's expression tightened instantly. He glared at Gustaff and grabbed the man's collar.

"YOU!!"

Gustaff shrieked out of fear, almost like a rat about to get squashed.

The policeman was about to swing his fist, but Diamond stopped him by patting his arm, "Don't do anything yet. I can forgive him as long as he told me about the fight between Chloe and someone else here."

"A fight?"

"Yes, that's the reason why I'm taking you here. This pervert wants to touch me in exchange for information. Since he wants it the rough way, then I'm going to be the one threatening him now," Diamond said with a smirk. "So, Gustaff, tell me now or you'll get beaten to death."

"I—I get it! Okay, I will tell you! Please release me now!"

The policeman glanced at Diamond, and the latter nodded.

Thus, he released Gustaff, and they waited for the school guard to speak.

Gustaff secretly cursed in his heart, thinking it was unfair for this woman to call her big burly police boyfriend a shield. But he had no choice now.

So he told Diamond about it;

"It happened a few days ago— no, a week ago, I think," Gustaff said. "Chloe was waiting near the school gate to pick up her daughter as always. Then two other moms approached her and started arguing with her, a fight broke out and the two moms were trying to grab Chloe."

"And they started scratching her face?" Diamond asked.

"What? No! The fight didn't actually happen because the bell rang, and the kids stormed out of the school. The janitor said that her daughter yelled and rushed in to shield her mother," Gustaff said truthfully.

Diamond frowned as the information obviously didn't match the date.

Chloe got the scar two days ago, not a week ago. And there was a clear scar on her cheek.

'So this is a different fight. Damn, did she make enemies with someone? But for a woman like Chloe, I don't think she's the one who creates problems,' Diamond thought.

"Do you know what they're arguing about?"

"Huh, no. I only heard it from a janitor anyway," Gustaff replied.

"I see, then tell me who those two women are," Diamond commanded.

Gustaff went silent instantly. He didn't want to get beat up, but he also didn't want to get entangled with two women who happened to be the parents of students in this school.

Diamond clicked her tongue as Gustaff was giving her silent treatment. She elbowed the policeman beside her, giving a silent instruction to beat the shit out of this pervert.

But before the policeman could grab his collar again, Gustaff quickly replied, "I—I will say it!"

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Diamond elbowed the policeman beside her, giving a silent instruction to beat the shit out of this pervert.

But before the policeman could grab his collar again, Gustaff quickly replied, "I—I will say it!"

"Good, then say it, who are those women?"

"They're the parents of two students here, Jada Jackson and Maya Glasgow. I don't know what happened between them, but they've always been hostile to Chloe Gray," Gustaff explained.

The answer satisfied Diamond but didn't really answer anything about her mission.

In fact, it only gave her even more homework to do to help Chloe.

"Okay, I think that's all, now give me your ID card," Diamond said.

"Y—You can't do that! Why do you need my ID card anyway?!" Gustaff became defensive in an instant.

"Just give it, or—" Diamond glanced at the burly policeman again.

Gustaff gritted his teeth and gave his ID card to Diamond.

Diamond took a picture of the ID card and handed it back to Gustaff, "I have your information. If you dare run your mouth and tell anyone about our meeting here, then I won't hesitate to make your life a living hell."

Gustaff shuddered as he noticed that Diamond wasn't playing around with the threat. So he nodded reluctantly and promised not to tell anyone.

"Good, follow me, officer," Diamond said, giving order to the big burly man.

They entered their cars respectively, and Diamond told the policeman to drive away from the school first before they talked.

After they were at least a few kilometers away, their cars stopped. The policeman came out of his car to enter Diamond's instead.

"So, what is it all about, sis?" the policeman asked.

Diamond sighed, "It's Chloe."

"Oh, your best friend, Chloe? What happened to her?"

"Yeah, she got attacked by someone. But she's a very guarded person, and always scared of confrontation. So she tries to say that it's nothing," Diamond replied. "My boss and I decide to investigate what truly happened, because there's no way I'm gonna let my homegirl get hurt."

"I see, do you need my help for other things then?"

"Not anymore. I'll continue investigating it myself," Diamond refused the offer. She patted the policeman's shoulder, who was actually her little brother. "Anyway, thanks for the help, Damien. I won't be able to extract some information from that creep."

"Anytime, sis," Damien said. "I'm going to work again. Tell me if you need something, oh and— tell me if Chloe is interested in a policeman. I fell in love after you showed me your selfie with her."

"HAH! As if! I won't let you do anything to my homegirl!" Diamond yelled, and Damien responded with a laugh as he returned to his car.

The police car honked at her before driving away.

Diamond might be saying no to her little brother, but she was considering whether she should introduce Chloe to her Big brother.

Diamond was close to Damien, and she knew he was a good man who would help Chloe heal. Despite his big build, Damien was a patient man and had been single for at least a year after breaking up with his long-term high school girlfriend.

Diamond showed her little bro a selfie she took with Chloe. In that selfie, Chloe smiled sheepishly while Diamond winked at the camera. Chloe looked like a shy angel in the selfie, no wonder Damien was interested.

"Honestly, I'd love her to date Damien instead. I think they will be a perfect match. But I don't want the whole family to be ruined by that one person," Diamond said.

She knew well how much influence her boss had. If she took Chloe away from him, he would probably go on a rampage and ruin her entire family's livelihood for the sake of destroying things and appeasing his anger.

Her boss might look calmer and reasonable on the surface, but that was simply because he had reunited with Chloe.

He was— and still, the same heartless bastard regarding his business and would stay the same as long as Chloe wasn't around.

"He is destroying all kinds of emotional connection to anyone, working as if everyone around him are enemies who are about to get him," Diamond murmured as she assessed Vernon's behavior.

"As much as I despise him, I think he needs Chloe more than anyone," Diamond said. "If it's not her, then I don't know who else can fill the void in his heart."

"And Chloe too— home girl needs a powerful man to protect her from her scum ex-husband. Vernon is all she needs. He has money, influence, and he is obviously in love with her the whole time."

Diamond rolled her eyes and remembered all the women her boss spent the night with. They were all white women with chestnut hair, doe eyes, and sweet smiles.

It was his type, he said. Which was total bullshit in Diamond's eyes.

"Meh, I think you're just in love with Chloe the whole time, and you're sleeping with women similar to her as a way to appease yourself and fill the emptiness in your heart," Diamond said ruthlessly.

At first, Diamond didn't understand her boss' obsession with this type of woman. If Chloe Gray was that beautiful, surely she would be a supermodel, not a housewife, by now.

That was… until Diamond met Chloe in person.

She was thin, fragile, but beautiful indeed.

She might not be a supermodel-level beauty, but there was something about her.

Something that made Diamond feel safe and comfortable whenever she was with Chloe, which was also why she claimed Chloe to be her best friend so quickly.

Because her gut told her that Chloe was a good woman, simple as that, and she quickly understood Vernon's obsession with her.

Because only a woman like Chloe could be the safe home for Vernon, a woman who would soothe his raging heart and make him more docile.

A woman he could call home.

"Sadly, none of them can really portray the image of Chloe, that's why you keep going from one woman to another as long as you can find Chloe's replacement, right, Boss?"

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"Sadly, none of them can really portray the image of Chloe, that's why you keep going from one woman to another as long as you can find Chloe's replacement, right, Boss?"

Unfortunately, she couldn't say it right in front of Vernon's face as she was afraid he would be angry and destroy things in his office again.

Diamond didn't want to spend another busy week just ordering and buying furniture for Vernon's office again since he was so picky about everything.

"I should've suggested that he put a punching bag inside the velvet room instead. That should be more useful than all the sex toys he had in there," Diamond stated. "Besides, that Velvet room hasn't been used for a while. It's all dusty now."

Diamond also appreciated her boss' patience. After he realized that Chloe was abused and traumatized, he hadn't touched her ever since.

"Guess I got to give him an applause for that, knowing how much of a sex-crazed stud he is."

"Now, back to the topic—" Diamond took out her phone and started typing to make a note. She wanted to point out a few things.

1. Chloe had a fight with two women a week ago. Unknown reason.

2. It was almost impossible for her to be the one who instigated the fight. So it seemed that she might've been bullied.

3. She never told me— or anyone about it. She had been bullied by many over the years.

4. I have a theory about this…

Diamond stopped typing on the fourth point. She hesitated to type the theory she had in mind and tried to rethink it;

'I know that Vincent is such an asshole. Homegirl told me a few things about the abuse she experienced. But she seems to always try to cover up for her ex-husband for no apparent reason.'

'I have a feeling that the one who caused the fights between Chloe and those women is Vincent Gray. After all, he likes to fuck anyone he met.'

'He could just fuck those women and then told them to bully Chloe, right? It's possible knowing there is nobody who wants to hurt a homegirl more than Vincent.'

Diamond was about to cement her theory until she realized there was one thing that made her wonder because she couldn't answer it;

"Why did Vincent Gray, who was obviously an extremely busy man, bullied his own wife? What kind of sin did she do to him? Or he just enjoys her misery? But why?"

The questions started stockpiling in Diamond's head, and she couldn't answer none. Because her homegirl refused to talk more about the abuse and kept it all by herself.

Diamond shook her head in disbelief, "I don't understand why Chloe keeps covering up for that bastard. He is obviously a piece of shit!"

Diamond was frustrated because she felt helpless. If only Chloe had been more active in fighting back, everything would be better.

But…

Diamond took a deep breath, "I can't say that about Chloe. I don't know the extent of trauma she experienced. So it's better to just put this problem aside and focus on the culprit who clawed the homegirl's face two days ago."

Diamond put her phone in her bag and drove to the next destination based on Vernon's credit card information.

**

Diamond parked her car in front of the grocery store where Chloe always does her weekly grocery shopping. It was still morning, so the parking lot was empty.

Diamond walked in and headed straight to the only cashier who had just started his shift.

She stood in front of him with her arms crossed and said, "Is there a manager here? I'd like to speak with him."

The cashier was surprised by the sudden confrontation. He thought he had done something wrong and asked carefully, "I'm sorry, Miss. I don't know if I did something wrong-"

"No, it's not about you. I just want to see the manager because I have a request."

"A request? May I know what it is, Miss?"

Diamond clicked her tongue. She didn't have that much time. So she simply took two hundred bucks out of her wallet and put it in the cashier's chest pocket.

"Let's just cut to the chase and bring me to your manager, okay? I promise it's not about you."

The cashier was shocked by the sudden two hundred bucks in his pocket, but he accepted it in the end and led Diamond to the manager's office's door.

"Miss, I don't dare to knock on the door, and I can only lead you here. Don't tell her that I'm the one who brings you here. I don't want to get into trouble," the cashier warned.

"Mhm, sure, thanks."

After the cashier left, Diamond finally knocked on the door a few times until she heard the voice of a woman who replied from inside, "Come in!"

Diamond opened the door and saw a middle-aged woman who was surprised by her sudden presence. But she kept her professionality and asked politely, "Is there something I can do, Miss?"

"Yes," Diamond replied. "Mind if I sit in, because I want to ask about something private."

The manager noticed the seriousness, and her face turned solemn instantly, "Please sit down and let me know if there is something I can help you with."

Diamond sat directly facing the manager's desk, and she quickly uttered her intention.

"I want to see the CCTV from two days ago."

The manager frowned, she had to be careful with customers, and this woman in front of her didn't seem to be an easy one to appease;

"May I know what you need it for, Miss?"

Diamond kept up with her arrogant posture. She crossed her legs and replied with a confident yet cold voice;

"I heard there was a fight happening in this store between two women two days ago. That woman is my client's wife, and he wants to press charges on whoever hurt her that day."

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"I heard there was a fight happening in this store between two women two days ago. That woman is my client's wife, and he wants to press charges on whoever hurt her that day."

The manager went on full guard instantly.

Of course, she knew about the fight in the store two days ago, because it was big and involved children.

But none of the women who fought seemed to want to press charges. After they fought and were separated by the staff, they argued again before one of them left. The woman with four kids threw all her groceries and left without buying anything.

It was a wild situation. Luckily, nobody and nothing got damaged in the store except for the woman who got horrible long scratches on her cheek.

The manager had no affiliation with them, but she had to be careful. Who knew if one of them might be the wife of a billionaire or something.

"I can give you the CCTV recording, but… may I know to whom you work? At least let me know the identity of the woman…."

Diamond's body stiffened, and her heartbeat skipped for a second when the manager basically confirmed there was a fight happening two days ago.

Thus, Diamond continued her pretense;

"My client is Vernon Phoenix Gray, and his wife is the one who got into a fight two days ago," Diamond replied. Diamond could see the doubt in the manager's face.

Vernon was very popular on the internet. Thus the manager must've known a few things about him.

"Miss, I don't think Vernon Phoenix Gray is married. I heard he's dating that one actress, and that woman who fought two days ago doesn't look like the actress he dated," the manager said.

'Oh yeah, that actress lasted for a week at best, because by the time they dated, my boss already had his eyes upon Chloe,' Diamond replied in her head.

Diamond was already bluffing in the first place. She acted like a lawyer handling a client's case, even though she knew damn well that her homegirl would rather keep it for herself. Her boss would rather deal with the problem using his own style.

'Should I call Mr. Phoenix Gray to convince the manager?' Diamond started considering.

But she scrapped the idea quickly.

Because her boss was a man who used intimidation and power to get what he wanted. If Diamond called him, he would probably threaten this poor manager who was just doing her job.

So, the only way to get the recording was to convince her another way, and Diamond knew the right person for this.

'I guess I need his help, huh?'

"Do you want me to call my higher up? He is the one directly handling the case, I'm just a subordinate doing my job," Diamond said.

"Oh, sure, Miss."

Diamond fished her phone out of her bag and called another man she knew well.

"Mhm, yeah, can you come here, boss? It's about the recording that you requested, I'm in the manager's office of that grocery store," Diamond murmured on the phone. "Okay, yes, boss."

After she hung up the phone call, she sent the location to the man via Whatsapp and a brief explanation of what to do to convince the manager.

"Please wait for about fifteen minutes, is that okay?" Diamond asked the manager.

"I can wait, don't worry."

After roughly twenty minutes, someone knocked on the door before it was opened.

A tall, handsome black man wearing glasses and a neat suit walked in. He was probably in his early thirties and looked quite intimidating.

Diamond rose from the chair and bowed respectfully, "Sir, this is the store manager. She wants you to handle this case personally because I'm just an associate."

"Hm," the man sat on the seat, replacing Diamond and pulled something out of his pocket.

He slid his attorney id to the manager's desk, "My name is Desmond Johnson, I'm an attorney from Kirkland & Ellis. I'm handling the case from Mr. Vernon Phoenix Gray. His wife was attacked two days ago, and the report said that she was attacked here by a woman."

"Now, if you don't mind, I'd like to see the recording to gather evidence," Desmond Johnson said.

The manager checked the attorney's id for a few seconds and nodded without hesitation.

"Please follow me to the security office," the manager said.

Diamond and Desmond followed the manager to the security control office. The manager talked with the head of security of the building, and the head of security agreed to show the CCTV recording from two days ago.

The head security clicked on a few things and showed the CCTV to them.

"Here's what you want," the head of security said.

Diamond took a closer look at the screen. She saw an empty aisle for a few seconds until a woman walked in with four children— all boys tailing from behind.

She seemed to be ignoring all her children. She focused on picking a few items, even though the kids were running around the aisle and knocking on a few things.

The scene continued until another woman pushed the shopping cart, which Diamond quickly recognized as her homegirl. Chloe stopped in the aisle, watching the woman and the four boys for a while for an unknown reason.

She was about to walk away, but the boys noticed her and ran towards her. They hogged Chloe's legs as if they were familiar with each other.

The mother of those four boys quickly noticed Chloe, and an argument ensued between them.

The mother of the four boys suddenly attacked Chloe first, and a fight broke out.

Chloe was trying to defend herself, but all she did was yank the hair of the woman. In contrast, the woman mercilessly tried to scratch Chloe's face a few times until one of her attacks succeeded.

People were already gathering around, and the security guards finally separated them.

The four boys hid behind Chloe's legs, and it took a while until they returned to their mom. After that, Chloe was left with scratch wounds on her face.

And the recording stopped.

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Diamond was astonished by the recording. She thought the attacker was a random crazy woman who would attack anyone for no apparent reason.

But it was a mother of four, and the children seemed overly familiar with Chloe.

In fact, just by looking at the recording, Diamond could say that the boys seemed to favor Chloe much more than their real Mom.

'With that kind of familiarity, this woman who attacked her must be her family. But what kind? Cousin? Sister? Or just a close friend?' Diamond wondered.

But before she could think more about the problem, the head of security asked, "Do you need something else?"

Desmond nudged Diamond's heel with his shoe, signaling Diamond to stand straight again.

Diamond resumed her nonchalant expression and replied, "That is all. Can you send this CCTV recording to me?"

The head security glanced at the manager, and the manager glanced at Desmond, the attorney who seemed to be holding a high rank.

Thus, the manager nodded.

"Alright, I will put this in a flash disk," the head of security took out a new flash disk, copied that recording inside, and then handed it to Diamond.

Diamond gave Desmond a side glance, hunting they had gotten everything they needed.

Thus, Desmond cleared his throat and said, "Thank you for your cooperation. Don't worry about the store, we will try not to give you too much trouble."

Diamond and Desmond left the grocery store and went into Diamond's car.

They took deep, relieved breaths together as they had finished their pretense.

Desmond looked at his little sister and asked, "What the hell was that? Why do you need that kind of recording? I thought your boss was a single fuckboy who barely managed to maintain a relationship for a week."

"But now he is already married apparently?" Desmond asked.

Diamond often told stories of what was happening with her job to her brothers, and she often complained about how much of a fuckboy Vernon Phoenix Gray was.

So this was a surprise for Desmond, who suddenly got a call from his little sister, asking for help to pretend that he was the attorney handling this case.

"Well, this case is about Chloe. She got attacked in the grocery store, and I'm trying to find the culprit," Diamond told her Big brother.

"Chloe— oh, you mean the beautiful woman you had a selfie with?" Desmond said.

"Yeah, she's my best friend. That's why I'm willing to help my boss to find the culprit," Diamond confirmed.

"I see…" Desmond nodded as he suddenly took this seriously. "If Chloe wants the help of an attorney, you can always contact me. I will handle her personally."

Diamond shuddered as she quickly realized the true intention of her Big brother;

"Ain't no way I'm gonna give her to you!"

"Hahah! Fine, fine, but don't forget to contact me if she happens to be interested in an attorney. I can give her a good life with my current salary too. I saw the selfie you took with her, and I think I fell in love."

Diamond rolled her eyes. She couldn't believe that all her brothers were in love with Chloe with a single look at her selfie.

But then again, Diamond also loved Chloe, but in a sisterly way.

'So, let's just say she is my whole family type,' Diamond thought. If one of her brothers married Chloe, then Chloe would be everyone's dearest. Her parents seemed to be fond of her simply from Diamond's story.

'Maybe I should bring homegirl to the next thanksgiving, or christmas, bet everyone will love her,' Diamond thought.

"Well, I'm off to work now. Bye, Diamond."

"Bye, Desmond. Thanks for the help."

Desmond exited the car and returned to his car.

Diamond started typing a note on her phone again, this time for a new problem;

1. A Homegirl got attacked in the grocery store.

2. The attacker was a mother of four that might be close to her. Presumably a very close friend, cousin, or sister.

3. Chloe doesn't attack back. She is just defending herself and refuses to tell the attacker's identity. So…

"It's probably her sister," Diamond theorized. "Chloe never told me about her family, though. She only talked about how much Vincent's family despised her because she didn't come from a rich background.

But she said nothing about her own family, 'The only thing she told me about her family was how much she appreciated her mother for raising her as a single mother. Heck, I don't even know the name of anyone in her family.'

Diamond felt depressed as she realized that her feeling of closeness might not be well reciprocated with Chloe.

Diamond told Chloe everything about herself, but Chloe hid everything from her.

The realization disappointed her. She wouldn't lie.

She told Chloe everything about her family, even many of her secrets because she knew that Chloe would never tell anyone.

But she also expected Chloe to open up and share many of her secrets.

"I know that she has a lot of trauma, and it's difficult for her to open up. But I can't help feeling disheartened…." Diamond murmured. "Am I just being too excited over being her best friend? Maybe she doesn't think of me the same way?"

There was a lot of disappointment stacked up in her heart right now. She had never tried this hard just to help someone who might or might not feel the same for her.

But she still wanted to help her homegirl to find justice nonetheless.

"At least she should know how serious I am to help her. Maybe she will eventually open up about everything in the end."

Diamond returned to the case that she was handling right now.

She had a strong guess the attacker was Chloe's sister, or at least her close cousin if she had one.

"If that's the case, then it made sense how she tried to hide the identity of the attacker. She must've thought about covering up for her sister, especially looking at how close she is with her nephews."