Chapter 118

Just then, Mr. Kelleigh’s urging tone rang out at the other end of the phone. “Why aren’t you asking Grace to rush to the police station to withdraw the case so that our children can be

released!?”

“Released? Why should they be released? They’ve committed such an evil act, they should be locked up for as long as they

deserve!”

“They’re your own children! Do you have to do this for a person who doesn’t share our family name?”

“What are you talking about? She’s my daughter’s daughter!

Her mother isn’t here so this old woman must support her!”

“Are you doing this so no one will care for you when you’re old? Or are you going to depend on your granddaughter who has been to prison to provide for you and attend your funeral?”

two old people continued their argument as if they had forgotten that the call was still connected. A moment passed before her grandmother realized

Grace

Your uncles, aunt, and cousins must have been blinded by money to commit such an immoral act. You don’t have to withdraw the case. Lock them up for as long as they deserve!” Grandmother exhorted in a

clutched the phone and started sobbing uncontrollably. “I had thought that Grandma was calling me to ask me to let go of the incident and not look into it. I thought she wanted me to ask the police

that Grandma would

left me at Grandma’s and I was bullied by the other kids in town. When I was snivelling, Grandma would tug my hand and

cry. Grandma’s here. Grandma will support Grace. We shouldn’t

for my sake. If she couldn’t reason with

act like a

way. In everyone else’s eyes, I was just a kid who had lost their mother and turned into a child

Grandma’s eyes, I was always her darling.

all grown up, I’ll be able to live in comfort! And yet, when I grew up, I went to jail just when I had become able to let

heard the news of my incarceration, she was stricken with illness and

last year.

to fall out with the family

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