Chapter 448 The News
“And that mask, too. Urgh. Feels too mysterious to my taste…”
“She doesn’t look at all like someone who should be affiliated with Mr. Brighthall. You sure this isn’t like a huge misunderstanding?”
“The woman in the picture is a godd*mn queen, sis. If she were here in this hospital this whole time, we should have noticed her by now! So yeah, I call doubt!”
Deirdre was sensitive, so the first thing that leaped to her mind was that these people were talking about her. She raised her head and turned in their direction.
“God, she’s looking at us! She’s not going to rearrange our faces, right? I mean, she got out of prison despite killing someone in a hit-and-run! This is the kind of thug we are not supposed to engage with. Let’s bail!”
“Can you calm down? We don’t know if it’s fake news, okay? Even if she is that murderer, what will she do about us? She’s the one who shouldn’t be here!”
Deirdre was even more sure that the target of their hostility was her, but only pieces of their dialogue were intelligible enough from her side. She could hear certain words such as “murderer” or “Brendan”… Her fear multiplied. She rose.
The voices grew louder. “She’s up! She’s coming to kill us!”
“Don’t be a wimp! If she dares hurt us, we’ll call the cops on her!”
Deirdre took a deep breath and approached them. Her cold made her head feel unnecessarily heavy while her footsteps were a little too light, but most of all, it made her voice sound like a growl. “Excuse me, but were the two of you talking about me?”
The braver woman of the two shielded her friend and snapped. “Who else could be *sshole enough to fit the description?”
Deirdre frowned. Perplexed, she asked, “Have I ever offended any of you?”
The woman sneered. “Oh, not us personally. But that doesn’t mean you’re not sh*t! Lemme ask you this, are you the woman they were talking about in the news?”
“The news?” Deirdre was even more dumbfounded now. “What news?”
“Well, this one… Hold on a sec,” the woman stopped herself and asked, “You’re blind? Are you really blind, or are you just pretending to be one?”
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