Love At The Wrong Table

Mackenzie’s maneuvering left Ellie struggling to respond. Seeing her silence,

Mackenzie smiled again. “You’re truly a loyalty and righteousness girl. Yosef should consider himself lucky to have you as a friend. If possible, I’d like to be your friend too!”

“I won’t be friends with you,” Ellie responded instinctively. “You’re Yosef’s enemies and, therefore, my enemies too!”

“Just because Queenie Banner died intentionally at Emmanuel’s hands, Yosef sees him as an enemy, and you see us as enemies, too?” Mackenzie began another assault, forcefully questioning.

“That’s right!” Ellie pressed her lips tightly together, then accused agitatedly, “Why is it that Emmanuel can get away with murder, claiming self-defense, but you all insist on sending Yosef to jail for accidentally killing someone?”

“Ellie, you’re literate, right?” Mackenzie thought Ellie’s rebuke sounded rather ridiculous.

“Emmanuel acted in self-defense. Banner, along with others, came to kill him. He defended himself, and Banner happened to throw herself at him. Yosef, on the other hand, committed manslaughter by accident. The nature of the two incidents is completely different!”

ears. “Justice and evil are just about power. If you want to

“So, someone paid you to pretend

her mouth, refusing to

many people choose to believe us; I’m sure they can tell me the truth. I’m talking to you to resolve our grievances.

and neither are those

the truth from her mouth, so there was no need to continue. She just felt

urgently saying, “Ms. Quillen, there are many journalists outside. What should we do?”

talking to Ellie, glanced at Emmanuel, who was still treating

to come sooner or later, anyway. They had won the race against time and now had nothing to fear.

a group of well-equipped journalists

he saw the large group. “We were blocked from entering yesterday, and now they’re letting journalists in so

believe this isn’t deliberately