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?”

saving everyone? Did he not run into trouble on the

for someone to sacrifice their life for your daughter’s! Is your daughter’s life somehow worth more than that of

woman bit her lip. So what if it

was that her daughter

woman had seemingly lost it, shouting such a

not

to have a mother

that? He jumped in to save your daughter, and you’re still saying

the hell are you talking about! My daughter’s already gone, and you’re speaking of her like this! Did

she spoke, trying to hit the

not having any of that. She hid in Lilly’s shoulder, squawking, “You evil woman, fall on that big

air, the woman really lost her footing and slipped and fell to the

hit the ground hard, putting her in a kneeling position

Blake were rendered speechless by

the sight, scrambling to

Lilly up.

statement, and he had

no point in staying here

one last glance at the corpse lying by the

face had been blown open, exposing his

heart lurched in fear at

pupils were

the water, they had been rolled

were wide open and staring in

And now…

pupils had somehow

Blake was speechless

asked, “Dad,

“Where’s your

underground. Said that there was someone coming

did not say anything more. He pushed Bettany

anxiously, “Are you

much emotion,

struggling in the water for so long,

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

his T-shirt out. “The water weeds were

late in the night, how terrifying! You can’t see anything, what if

Blake was speechless.

to branches, or rocks in

thought of the thing that had

off his soaked clothes to reveal his firm, broad chest. He checked himself for wounds in the mirror, and saw nothing