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!”

are you going to depend on your

had forgotten that the call was still connected. A moment passed before her grandmother realized that the phone was still on and said, “Grace, are

Grace

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

thought that Grandma was calling me to ask me to let go of the incident and not

that Grandma would be calling to support

Dad left me at Grandma’s and I was bullied by the other kids in town. When I was snivelling, Grandma would tug my hand and

‘Grace, don’t cry. Grandma’s here. Grandma will support Grace. We shouldn’t bully others but that

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

act like a

I was just a kid

in Grandma’s eyes, I

comfort! And yet, when I grew up, I went to jail just when I had become able to

of my incarceration, she was stricken with illness and

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