Spoiled by Eight Uncles

The rescue boats lit up the water in the night, searching and scooping as time passed.

The middle–aged lady, now restrained, continued to shriek, “My daughter… my daughter…”

Yet after half an hour searching, nothing seemed to come up. Someone said that the girl may have been dragged under the current, and had sunk to the bottom of the river.

Either way, there was no way she was still alive…

“Ugh, if that lady hadn’t meddled just now… her daughter might have been found…”

“Alright, stop talking about it. She just lost her daughter, that’s a pretty big deal…”

The middle-aged woman’s chest ached as she listened.

No, how could it have been her fault?

She had just been anxious. Any mother would have done the same in a situation like this.

She hadn’t asked for Blake to save her, either. Why hadn’t he saved her daughter, and gone back for her instead!

The woman was overcome with remorse and guilt she could barely breathe, running to Blake and beginning to hit and kick at him:

“Why didn’t you save my daughter first! Why did you rescue a dried-up corpse! Why did you save me!”

“You’re evil, you should be dead! My daughter’s only sixteen, but you didn’t save her! You should be dead!”

The middle-aged lady shrieked loudly, yelling bloody murder at Blake.

Lilly clenched her fists. “Unreasonable! Unreasonable! You’re being absolutely ridiculous!”

Her father was far from deserving to be dead!

Lilly did not get it. Her father had tried so hard to save everyone, why was it his fault now?

Blake pushed Lilly behind him gently, his expression cold.

He could understand the pain of losing one’s daughter— come to think of it, he would be just as overwhelmed if his dear Lilly was gone.

But understanding was one thing. That didn’t mean he was going to be blamed for it.

Blake grabbed the woman’s palm, outstretched and ready to slap Lilly. He shoved her away. “I won’t blame you for this, seeing as your daughter’s nowhere to be found.”

The woman refused to back down still. The man that had helped Bettany look after Lilly just now shouted, “Are you done making a scene?”

not go down to try saving everyone? Did he not

life for your daughter’s! Is your daughter’s life somehow worth more than that of others’

woman bit her lip. So what if it

was that her

I beg him though?” The woman had seemingly lost it, shouting

else did not know what

up, “It’s truly your daughter’s demise to have a mother like you! No wonder she

says that? He jumped in to save your

woman broke down for real this time, sobbing loudly as she screamed, “What the hell are you talking about! My daughter’s already gone, and you’re speaking of her like this! Did he save her? No, he didn’t! You’re all

flailed her arms as she spoke, trying

shoulder, squawking, “You evil woman, fall on that big

words rang through the air, the woman really lost her footing

ground hard, putting her in a kneeling position to the

Lilly and Blake were rendered

the sight, scrambling to appease Lilly

Lilly up.

his statement, and he had

was no point

one last glance at the corpse

been blown open, exposing his

in

man’s pupils were looking

the water,

was ashore, they were wide open and

And now…

had somehow turned

Blake was speechless

“Dad,

asked, “Where’s

“He’s back underground. Said that there was someone coming for an

more. He pushed Bettany

anxiously,

not show much emotion, only mumbling, “I’m

were you struggling in the water for so long,

been on the walkway by the riverbank when everyone was crowding by the shore, and could see that Blake had been struggling in the water

wrung his T-shirt out. “The water weeds

but nag, “Well, don’t be so rash next time! It’s so late in the night, how terrifying! You can’t see anything, what if you had run

Blake was speechless.

referring to branches, or rocks in the

that had grabbed his ankles

to reveal his firm, broad chest. He checked himself for wounds