The moment a child appeared, the living room immediately calmed down. The 2 Broke Girls scrambled to their feet and even helped Russell, who had suffered a barrage of attacks, back upright.
"Mathilda, here's what happened. Max fell down, and when I went to help her up, I fell too. You're so smart, you'll definitely understand."
Caroline tried to explain, but it did little good. Mathilda only believed what she saw.
She gave the three people in the room a disdainful look, then cautiously moved over to Russell. "Officer, I have something I'd like to ask you to help me with?"
Why does everyone come to me? I'm not a wishing machine!
Russell grumbled internally, but said aloud, "Are you sure you want my help, rather than having your adoptive father Arnold clear the way with money?"
"He's so busy, he doesn't care whether I live or die."
Mathilda curled her lip and added dismissively, "He says he'll indulge my every whim, but he says one thing and does another. Men are all like that. I've stopped expecting anything from him."
"..." x3
The three of them fell silent in unison. If they remembered correctly, this girl was only twelve this year.
Russell gave a light cough and asked what had happened. It was only because he had personally given Arnold life and knew Arnold would never lay a hand on a child. Otherwise, he would have drawn his gun and eliminated this scourge of society.
Two minutes later, Russell understood why Mathilda had come to him.
Arnold had recently acquired a high-tech software development company called Cybertron and had been so busy he barely had time to stop moving. Meanwhile, Leon, the person Mathilda cared about most, was currently locked up in prison. Arnold had hired a group of