Resent, Reject, Regret by Aqua Summers

Chapter 317

Chapter 317 Extortion

Few could endure the optics of a bawling old woman. Naturally, some of the bystanders were compelled to mediate.

“Come on, Eilis! Look at Mrs. Boebert. She’s so old and can barely walk on her own these days. You can’t possibly think she came to you, despite the difficulty, just so she could slander you in public, right?

“Besides, nobody wants an unresolvable conflict among ourselves, right? This is a small place, Eilis. Tell, uh, that girl to apologize and get this over with.”

“Amen to that! We are a tight-knit community. We know everyone here, drink the same water, and live under the same sky. It doesn’t do any of us good if the community splits because of something so trivial, right? Something as trivial as picking a fight with a little kid, too! If I may be frank, Eilis, do you really think that young lass is as trustworthy as you hope?”

Their comments were like thorns stinging Deirdre’s chest.

Eilis, however, was having none of it. That’s enough!” She erupted in rage.

incident as my Dee Dee picking a fight with a kid, then why don’t you all also consider that Bobby is picking a fight

after all the terrible ordeals she went through? Ask yourselves: when

bystanders suddenly fell

must not let Eilis alienate the rest of the village any further. As these people had said, everyone knew

for sticking up for me, but I think… I think I’m the one at fault here.

to stop being so nice, or everyone’s gonna

pained Eilis a lot. “They are lucky that all you got was an external wound. What if you ended up with head trauma,

her blind eyes to the floor. “Which is why I’ve

crowd looked down

have picked a

did not plan to let things slide so easily. “Ha, will you look at that! If an apology is all we need, then why do we need the criminal justice system and law enforcement?” Eilis saw red. “What!? You

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