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.”
she
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his sister was crying. He said,
“קווי
“Let her kneel”
snapped her head upward as her eyes reddened even more. “Mom,
such misery in her life before, and her mother had never been this cruel to her before as
said, “Alisha called me earlier.”
her tears and queried,
family were good friends with the Wahlstrom family. In fact, Theoden was the one who narued
asked, “Mom, did you ask Sashie to kneel
said to her children, “Alisha said to accept any request Finnegan has. If Finnegan gets upset, Old Mr. Wahlstrom is going to cut ties with the Miles family. She
siblings paled, and Sasha’s tears
a normal family? How is he making the head of Walund’s underworld so protective of him to the
already
in an alluring red dress. With a curl of his l*ps, Finnegan said, “You were the one who called Mrs. Miles,
answered, “Mr. Larkin, you’re not angry, are
when he realized she was trying to
with each other?”
hand to my grandpa when he was in his toughest times, so our families visit each other on New
did not intervene, the Wahlstrom family
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the Miles family would be inevitable
nodded and closed his eyes.
evening, he would not fully hold the Miles family accountable for what they
high-pitched. voice, “Mr. Larkin, the
If she failed at her task,
her to do
missing a beat, “Forget it. I’m
grumbled, “You
than having you tire
but to send Finnegan back. She let him out of the car at the junction
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