Harrison’s head started to pound at Susan’s loud crying. The nerves at his temple bulged with discomfort. “Alright, stop crying already. They’ve already handed out your sentence, so what else can I do? Just put up with it; it’s only ten more days.”

“Ten days,” Susan repeated listlessly. When she saw Jasmine, she perked up slightly and asked, “What about Jas? You can’t save me, but you can help Jas, right? At least try to reduce her sentence by a few years.”

“It’s hopeless. Natalie hasn’t agreed to falsify her testimony.” Jasmine lifted her head, her eyes narrowing into fearsome slits. “But it’s ok if she doesn’t want to give false testimony. I’ll just have to make sure she can’t attend the hearing.”

Harrison and Susan looked at each other when they heard her words. Then they both turned to look at Jasmine. “Jas, what are you going to do?”

Jasmine ignored Susan but beckoned Harrison over instead. “Dad, this is what we’re going to do.”

After hearing her plan, shock flashed through Harrison’s eyes. He soon steeled his nerves and nodded. “Alright, I’ll get it done.”

He left the police station after that.

The next day after breakfast, Natalie lifted Sharon’s bag as she got ready to send her to school.

Suddenly, Sharon ran into her room and locked herself in.

Natalie knocked on the door, coaxing, “Sharon, what are you doing? Open the door.”

 

I open the door, Mommy’s going to send me to kindergarten,”

stunned

 

because she doesn’t want

lowered her gaze as she pondered for a while. She

incident a couple of days ago

how will you learn new things if you don’t go to school today? All the other kids

soon relaxed as she replied, “Let it be then. I won’t go even if I’m way behind all of them. If I go to school, they’ll just bully me and call me a bastard with no dad,” Sharon trailed off

crying, and nothing Natalie said could

Natalie felt helpless.

“How about asking Mr. Shane to send you to school? Then they

who looked like he’d been dragged here by Connor. She

Shane tilted his jaw towards

leave for

door before Connor had zoomed straight towards

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