Resent Reject Regret by Aqua Summers novel Chapter 317

Chapter 317 Extortion

Few could endure the optics of a bawling old woman. Naturally, some of the bystanders were compelled to mediate.

“Come on, Eilis! Look at Mrs. Boebert. She’s so old and can barely walk on her own these days. You can’t possibly think she came to you, despite the difficulty, just so she could slander you in public, right?

“Besides, nobody wants an unresolvable conflict among ourselves, right? This is a small place, Eilis. Tell, uh, that girl to apologize and get this over with.”

“Amen to that! We are a tight-knit community. We know everyone here, drink the same water, and live under the same sky. It doesn’t do any of us good if the community splits because of something so trivial, right? Something as trivial as picking a fight with a little kid, too! If I may be frank, Eilis, do you really think that young lass is as trustworthy as you hope?”

Their comments were like thorns stinging Deirdre’s chest.

Eilis, however, was having none of it. That’s enough!” She erupted in rage.

Even if she did care a great deal about maintaining the village’s peace, she s… wanted to defend Deirdre. Eilis was fed up, and her face visibly trembled. “If you all want to frame this whole incident as my Dee Dee picking a fight with a kid, then why don’t you all also consider that Bobby is picking a fight with a blind. -woman?! Dee Dee can’t see a thing, people! She could not even harm Bobby unless that imp started it

first!

“And Lord Almighty, have any of you no shred of sympathy!? Why can’t you all just be a bit nicer to her after all the terrible ordeals she went through? Ask yourselves: when did her late mother ever mistreat any of you when she was alive, huh!?”

The bystanders suddenly fell silent.

Deirdre took a deep breath. She must not let Eilis alienate the rest of the village any further. As these people had said, everyone knew everyone else in a small village like this one. Next to everyone’s peace and co-existence, Deirdre’s thoughts simply did not matter.

“Madame Russell?” She spoke up and smiled softly. “Thank you for sticking up for me, but I think… I think I’m the one at fault here. It’s true. I shouldn’t have picked a fight with a child.”