Camille Strickland: (I said you were living with Brian now. Then they said nothing and left readily]
Î Camille Strickland [Did you block their phone numbers? They said youâre not answering your phone]
Valda Theller: [Yeah)
She should have blocked her uncleâs familyâs phone numbers long ago Even blocking them now was considered late!
Camille Strickland. (Well done! But didnât they try calling you using another phone number?]
Valda Theller: [They did. But as soon as they spoke and I heard their voices, I hung up and blocked their phone numbers]
In other words, she did not give them a chance to talk.
She did not want to listen to what they had to say anyway. They had worn out the last of her affection.
Camille Strickland: [Have you made up your mind this time?]
Valda Theller: [Iâll just consider that my grandparents only gave birth to my father!]
In other words, she no longer considered her uncle and his family her family!
Camille Strickland. [You should have done that long ago! They told me Brianâs suing them. That cousin of yours came to me today crying. saying that he was going to be charged with endangering public safety, causing trouble, intentional injury⦠Thereâs a bunch, and he might get imprisoned for up to ten years if heâs unlucky!
Valda Theller froze and looked up to the other side of the study. Brian was in front of his computer, dealing with his company matters. He felt Valda Thellerâs gaze and immediately turned his head around while asking. âWhatâs wrong?â
âDid you meet my uncleâs family?â
Brian replied truthfully, âYes.â
âAre you suing them?â
âYeah, of course. Shouldnât your uncleâs family get what they deserve for what theyâve done to you? Or do you want to plead mercy for them?â he said.
Valda Theller said, âNo, Iâm not going to plead for them. They deserve whatever theyâre getting. But why didnât you mention this to me? If my uncleâs family hadnât gone to look for Camille and Camille didnât tell me, I wouldnât know you had met them.â
Hesitation flickered in Brianâs eyes, He did not tell her because the humiliation she suffered that day at the comic fiesta was because of him.
Phoebe Cross wanted to embarrass her, so she bribed her uncleâs family.
He feared that knowing this fact would make her dislike him even more.
There was silence in the air.
Moments Later, Valda Theller said, âForget it if you donât want to talk about it.â
Brian said, âPhoebe Cross gave Wynne three million dollars. Phoebe Cross instructed Wynne to do that to you. She also arranged many people to cause a scene to attack and insult you.â
âPhoebe Cross?â Valda Theller recalled her appearance.
âAnd she did it because-
âI know whyâ She interrupted him âYou know?â He was surprised.
âShe loves you, so itâs not surprising that she wants to lay a hand on me,â said Valda Theller She knew Phoebe Cross loved him when she first met her Brian was silent for a long time before saying. âIâve never had romantic feelings for her. Sheâs just someone Iâve known since childhood.