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.”

she

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his sister

“קווי

“Let her kneel”

her head upward as her eyes reddened even more.

in her life before, and her mother had never been this

said, “Alisha called

tears and queried,

family were good friends with the Wahlstrom family. In fact, Theoden was the one who narued her, and

you ask Sashie

were no outsiders around anymore, so Kathleen nodded and 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 even said he’s going to crush the Miles

siblings paled, and Sasha’s tears abruptly stopped

of him to the point of threatening to cut ties with the

already

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

blinked and answered, “Mr. Larkin,

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

with

avoiding her advances again. “But Old 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 you and the Miles family when I realized there was a conflict between you two. I was hoping

did not intervene, the Wahlstrom family would eventually

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

nodded and closed his eyes.

kneeling until the next evening, he would not fully hold the Miles family

in a high-pitched. voice, “Mr. Larkin, the

Finnegan. If she failed

believed her grandfather would not ask her to

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

rolled her eyes and grumbled, “You hurt my feelings, Mr. Larkin.”

having you tire

choice but to send Finnegan back. She let him out of the car at the junction a hundred meters away from the

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