Chapter 118

Just then, Mr. Kelleigh’s urging tone rang out at the other end of the phone. “Why aren’t you asking Grace to rush to the police station to withdraw the case so that our children can be

released!?”

“Released? Why should they be released? They’ve committed such an evil act, they should be locked up for as long as they

deserve!”

“They’re your own children! Do you have to do this for a person who doesn’t share our family name?”

“What are you talking about? She’s my daughter’s daughter!

Her mother isn’t here so this old woman must support her!”

you’re old? Or are you going to depend on your granddaughter who has been to prison to provide for you and attend your funeral?”

connected. A moment passed before her grandmother realized that the phone was still on

here,” Grace replied.

that you’re fine. Your uncles, aunt, and cousins must have been blinded by money to commit such an immoral act. You don’t have to withdraw the case. Lock them up for as long as they deserve!” Grandmother exhorted in a stubborn manner and immediately hung

sobbing uncontrollably. “I had thought that Grandma was calling me to ask me to let go of the incident and not look into it. I thought she wanted me to ask the police

expected that Grandma would be

just like when I was young and Dad left me at Grandma’s and I was bullied by the other kids in town. When I was snivelling,

Grandma’s here. Grandma will support Grace. We shouldn’t

my sake. If she couldn’t reason with them, she

like a

In everyone else’s eyes, I was just a kid who had lost

in Grandma’s eyes, I was always her

always said, ‘When Grace is all grown up, I’ll be able to live in comfort! And yet, when I grew up, I went to jail just when I had become able to let Grandma

of my incarceration, she was stricken with illness and struggled before

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