The old man opened his mouth, preparing to insist that the Crawfords hit him.

Yet upon speaking, he found himself telling the truth. “It was my fault. I was going too fast on my motorcycle…”

“I’m old, you know… I… I saw the car coming and couldn’t react in time, so I hit it…”

The words left his children in shock!

His oldest daughter hopped to her feet, fuming. “Dad, what are you going on about?”

The oldest son was frustrated as well. “Don’t be scared of them, they’re trying to trap you into giving them an answer they want!”

The second son, who was the guy in the gray T-shirt from the start, said, “Dad, your mind’s still foggy, isn’t it? They parked the car by the side of the road, how was it your fault?”

The children piped up one after the older, blaming their father for saying the wrong thing.

The old man opened his mouth wanting to say something, but ended up keeping silent.

He could not do anything amidst his children’s frustration. He was a patient who had just come out of a surgery, but could only lay there with trembling lips as his children berated him.

Helpless and pitiful.

Lilly stared at the sight before her in a daze. Had she done the right thing?

The truth amulet had, indeed, gotten the old man to tell the truth.

But because he had told the truth, he had ended up getting yelled at by his children— which mean Lilly was to blame for this.

She had thought that she had been doing the right thing, but that didn’t seem to be completely the case.

Blake carried her into his arms. “I know what you’re thinking about.”

hearts, making it easy for them to blame themselves when they saw pitiful

sometimes, what’s done is done and you

to think too much about whether you were right or

of you, as long as you

kind would make you a

way you could please everyone at the

no point in thinking about

to it! What could

long as your conscience was at peace about

to leave, with Lilly in

private medical team had also arrived. A group of medical professionals in lab coats and scrubs came in pushing a brand-new stretcher. For some

changed the patient’s bed in a matter of seconds, before pushing

and keep listening to

and rushed up to them at once. They blocked the door, refusing to let the Crawfords

if their father had admitted himself that he had hit

their old man had just

know what was going on at

there was no way they were

people were no match for the powerful force the Crawfords

matter of seconds, all of the

officers came to hold them down, and they shouted that the

to see when one was blatantly refusing to back down,

a fuss insisting they were telling the truth

with teary eyes on his bed, wanting to wipe his tears but being unable to

and policemen turned a blind eye to this. They left soon after, telling the Reed children, “We’re just acting by the law. You can make a report if

didn’t know the truth, those words sounded

their respective family members piped up

too much, they’re abusing their power!

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