Chapter 42

Mandy was at a lens for words. She wantedionice them out, but nothing seemed apt enough. The way these people kept escalating their insults made her want tácy.

But Grace simply polled open the car door and gor in

"Mandy, pet in," she said.

Mandy chubed into the car with deve

Behand them, the farmers saved their brooms in elebiation as if they had just tid themselves of a plagie

Seeing this scene in the rear-

view mittor, Mandy nearly spat out blood in rage. She couldn't hold it in anymore, and her tears spilled over.

Exhausted from a sleepless night, even the middle-

aged driver in the if our seat clutched the steering wheel with reddened eyes. He, too, was crying

Who would't feel devastated? Pouring your heart into something, only to have in trampled on Worse yet, Grace was being accused of crimes she never committed Grace sat by the window and watched the sce Though. Stop crying.

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But Mandy was too far gone. nlowing her nose into a tissue, she stifled between her worth. "I'm just.. I'm just so angry! I've never been treated like this in my whole life! That Alice is such a

be's socha Uch, she's vilet

has been like? Everyone side with her, no matter

how she had lived in the Lambert residence, but she had been part of the problem too back then. She had been too eager to please and too desperate for approval. That was

en

small tug at her

voor was thick with congestion "Your knee in infected. Does it

that bad," Grace ceplied. "Come on, stop crying. This isn't the end of the road. Let

few more times

forced herself to take a shower fast. The metallic went clinging to her skin was finally

first aid kit, there was a knock on the door. She opened into linda man in a wh

intim when he returned

the door across the hall. It was shut, with nothing

way back to sit on the

medical kit, put on gloves, and began treating her wounds. When he pulled out the embedded stone, she turned ghostly

jaw, her tightly knitted brown relaxing slightly. Sweat had already gathered

medication. "Take this. You're running a

"Alright. Thanks"

left, the swallowed the

barely sat down when the door swung open

his wheelchair into the room

Ourside,

of sunlight bathed the room in a

red glow

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