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.”
and she also wanted to get answers to her confusion from
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ached when he saw how his sister
“קווי
“Let her kneel”
her head upward as her eyes reddened
misery in her life before, and her mother had never been this
“Alisha called me
her tears and
Wahlstrom family. In fact, Theoden was the
asked, “Mom, did you ask Sashie
to accept any request Finnegan has. If Finnegan gets upset, Old Mr. Wahlstrom is going to cut ties with the Miles family. She even said he’s going to
Sasha’s tears abruptly stopped falling.
normal family? How is he making the head of Walund’s underworld so protective of him to the point of threatening
already in
a curl of his l*ps, Finnegan said, “You were the one who
Larkin, you’re not angry, are you?”
realized she was trying to charm him.
with each other?”
Mr. Miles once lent a helping hand to my 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
the Wahlstrom family would eventually have
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conflict between the Wahlstrom family and the Miles family would be inevitable
closed his
long as Sasha obediently remained kneeling until the next evening, he would
from Finnegan, she deliberately uttered in a high-pitched. voice, “Mr. Larkin, the night is still
If she failed at her task, her allowance
her grandfather would not ask her to do anything that would harm her. Furthermore, she did not mind hooking up with Finnegan, who had decent looks.
and responded without missing a beat, “Forget it. I’m afraid you might take advantage of me.”
her eyes and grumbled, “You
you tire me out.”
to send Finnegan back. She let him out of the car at the junction a
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