A Healer’s Journey

Chapter 16

Chapter 16 Kneel Before Him

Kathleen had to reel in from the confusion when she saw the caller’s number before she could pick up the call.

Her expression changed while she was on the call, and she kept glancing at Finnegan. A solemn look crossed her face.

Upon ending the call, Kathleen sighed and said, “Kneel before Mr. Larkin and apologize to

him.”

What?

Sasha thought she had misheard Kathleen. “Mom, what did you just say?”

Trey and Bernice were baffled. They were wondering why Kathleen was asking Sasha to go on her knees after answering a call.

However, Kathleen gave no explanation as she said, “Kneel, or I’ll kick you out of the Miles. family on behalf of your father!”

Her words stunned everyone present.

Tears

sprang to Sasha’s eyes as she cried out, “I hate you, Mom!”

Then, she bent her knees and kneeled before Finnegan. Unprecedented humiliation crashed into her as she squeezed out, “I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have offended you. Please forgive me!”

Kathleen was not happy to see her daughter on her knees, but the memory of the call from earlier made her collect herself.

“Is that enough, Mr. Larkin?”

Complicated feelings washed over Bernice as she looked at Finnegan. Finnegan was certainly the first person in Jadeborough who could force the Miles family to this point.

Yet, Finnegan merely shrugged and started walking away. “If you kneel until the next evening, I’ll consider lending a helping hand to the Miles family once.”

The rest of the people were silent as they watched Finnegan leave.

Only when she could no longer see Finnegan did Bernice mutter, “Mrs. Miles, I’ll take my leave first.”

stick around, and she also wanted to get answers to her confusion from

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he saw how his sister was

“קווי

“Let her kneel”

her

life before, and her mother had never been this cruel to her before

bitterly said, “Alisha called

wiped her tears and queried,

with the Wahlstrom family. In fact, Theoden was the one who

did you ask Sashie to kneel

If Finnegan gets upset, Old Mr. Wahlstrom

siblings paled, and Sasha’s tears abruptly stopped falling.

he from a normal family? How is he making the head of Walund’s underworld so protective of him to the point of threatening to

Finnegan was already in Alisha’s car,

Finnegan said, “You were the one who called Mrs. Miles, weren’t you?” Kathleen wouldn’t have changed her

“Mr. Larkin,

to look out the window when he realized she was trying to charm

with each other?”

grandpa when he was in his toughest times, so our families visit each other on New Year. That’s why I wanted to mediate between you and the Miles family when I realized there was a

intervene, the Wahlstrom family would eventually have to side

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between the Wahlstrom family and the Miles family would be inevitable at that

and closed his

as Sasha obediently remained kneeling until the next evening, he would not fully hold the Miles family accountable for what they had

Alisha heard nothing else from Finnegan, she deliberately uttered in a high-pitched. voice, “Mr. Larkin, the

ordered her to sleep with Finnegan. If she failed at her task, her allowance would be cut by ninety percent.

grandfather was so adamant about that, she believed her grandfather would not ask her to do anything

responded without missing a beat, “Forget it. I’m afraid you might take advantage of

“You hurt my

having you tire me out.”

but to send Finnegan back. She let him out of the car at

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