Chapter 6
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Their jaws were all drooped as they could hardly believe the words that he had spat out from his mouth.

"Could it be that he must have made a mistake?"

"I don't think that kid is mentally alright. Just look at his clothes."

"Even if he is, from his dressing, it's way too obvious that he can't even afford even three square meals." More words flooded through the hall but Nicolas did not care even for a single moment.

He paused, his stare all fixed on the young lady who was standing right before him.

Her anger that was already spilling out was way too obvious, her hands clutched and her lips quivering.

"It seems like you have gone mad or you are mad already. What do you think? This place is like some circus to you?" The initial frown that was hanging on her face deepened even more.

"When I am done with you. You are going to regret ever knowing me in your eternal life." She thundered attempting to drag her away but something made her pause 

It was the elegant steps that followed suit. So soft and swift that everyone turned towards the sound.

It was the manager of that branch.

"And what's going on here? I have been hearing a lot of noise. And I heard someone saying that he needed to see me?" He inquired with a strange look that could not be predicted on his face.

With a sudden dash, Miss. Evelyn surged towards the scene of the event and finally went ahead to say.

"This punk. He tried to steal from the store but it was too bad for him that I was suspicious of him and I have been watching him closely from behind." She quickly reckoned. 

The words exposed him to a swift wave of shock as he was finding it difficult to align her words.

"Steal?" His calm that he had been trying to keep suddenly disappeared as his teeth grated with so much anger.

"How dare you accuse me of something that I know absolutely nothing about?

"I can't believe that you will stoop so low because of your hate. Weren't the ones who wouldn't allow me to get my sales because I was poor.

You accused me of dropping and damaging the cells but I offered to pay for it even though the floors had prevented a scratch and now you are accusing me of stealing." Steams seemed to out from his nostrils as he spoke, his teeth gritted with so much There was nothing he hated most, it was someone accusing him of taking something that didn't belong to him. 

No matter how poor he was, he still had hands and could still work to meet his daily needs 

Miss. Evelyn turned towards the boss with a weird twitch in her eyes.

"Are you going to believe a word of what he is saying, sir? Just take a really good look at him. He looks like someone that just got off from some piece of trash and he is claiming that he would be able to afford two iPhones?" She shot a deadly glare at Nicolas and that got him even angrier than he was already.

The boss stared at Nicholas and back at his worker. Knowing Evelyn for a while now, he could tell that she had a really bad temper.

But turning over to the young man, first, he seemed way too Young to be able to afford two of that flagship, and apart from that, he was looking more like a piece of junk.

The manager was kept on the fence, thoughts running through his mind as he didn't know what exactly it was that he was going to do this time.

He paused briefly, his heart beating hard against his chest as though it was going to burst through as he finally placed his hands around a decision.

"We should allow him to give it a try. If he isn't able to make the purchase. Then we have every reason to believe that he came here to steal." The boss returned.

Evelyn was stunned as things did not go the way that she wanted it to 

But she wasn't the kind of person to give up just yet. Not when she still had air flowing in her lungs.

"Sir? Are you going to listen to a word of what he just said? He should be handed over to the police.

I can tell that they are going to see the credibility of our Story just at a single glance. Letting him go through all these processes is only going to be a waste of time and nothing other than that."

Nicolas was about to say something but she would not allow him to spit out even a single word from his mouth as she quickly chimed in.

"And thinking outside the box. What if he is planning something else? What is the possibility that he doesn't have accomplices and this is all a..." The manager could not bear her words anymore so he quickly raised his hands...

Evelyn's face was clouded with anger but she was still able to push a smile through even in her anger.

"That's enough already Evelyn. I just told you my decision and you should be fine with it.

Now I want you to get over to the office and get the card terminal." He finally said.

Her hefty words seemed to have withered in her lips all of a sudden as she would dare to spit out even a single word from her mouth.

She bowed slightly and soon, her steps swayed off out of the place.

Everyone threw their cells from their pockets to take recordings of the classy moments.

Soon, she came swinging back to the hall with a large card terminal in her hands which she finally dropped on the table.

The manager walked swiftly over to Nicolas and whispered in words that were loud enough for only him to hear.

"I hope you are not trying to pull off a prank or something else. Cause I am going to make sure that you pay for it myself." He muttered under his breath.

But his words were firmly ignored by Nicolas who reached out to his pockets and quickly brought out his card, reaching it out to the manager.

"Here is my card." He sprouted out coldly.

The manager shot a really cold stare at him and snapped the card away from his hands.

Walking over to the machine that was lying right before him, he went through a series of instructions and finally installed the card in the right place.

Everyone waited patiently for what was next and afterwards, there was a loud beep in the hall.

"Card declined." The sound echoed throughout the hall multiple times and Nicola's heart seemed to have been struck dead, right on the point that he stood as he could hardly breathe properly anymore.heart seemed to have been struck dead, right on the point that he stood as he could hardly breathe properly anymore.

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