Eira was so frightened that she jumped. She turned around and saw Brooke. "You…don't you have piano practice today? Why are you home?"Brooke's voice was sharp. "You're a thief! You're a bad person! I finally know why you have to come to my house now. You have always been a beggar and a thief, right? You've had your eyes on my house for a very long time! You begged my dad and mom, and you begged me to let you stay at our house! My parents are so kind! You thief! You're stealing my mother's things!"Brooke was almost as tall as Eira, but she seemed to be stronger than Eira. She had never been afraid of Eira, to begin with, but because she was at her own house, Brooke was even more unafraid of Eira. She kept beating Eira while roaring angrily, "Thief! Burglar! Little beggar! Our whole family has been so good to you, and yet, you want to steal my mother's things. I'll beat you to death! I'll beat you to death! Little beggar! Little filthy thing. Your conscience can’t even compare to a d

Malvolio looked at Eira in puzzlement. "You…what is that?"Eira opened the bag. "Malvolio, look."The bag was filled with shiny gold and silver jewelry. Malvolio immediately thought of something. "Eira! Tell me, did you do something bad out there?"Eira smiled. "Malvolio, why don't you try and think. Even if I wanted to do bad things, where can I go to do it? If I wanted to rob a jewelry store, how can I do it when I am still at such a young age?"Malvolio thought that it made sense. After all, his sister was still a child. He softened his tone and asked, "Then, where did you get all this jewelry? Are these real? They are toys, right?"Eira shook her head. "No, my dad…Delmont was the one who had given these to me."Eira’s mother spoke up, trembling and in tears. "Malvolio, Malvolio, you absolutely can't let that d*mn man snatch your sister away. You have to listen to me. I am not crazy. I am not crazy. Do you believe me, my son?"Back then…back then when that man wanted to divor

Eira shook her head and tried to remain calm. "I-I don't know what are you here for. What are you doing at my house"Joy sneered. "Eira, would you rather take me into your house, let me have a sit and discuss this matter over in front of your mother, or would you rather follow me out to talk about it?"Eira shook her head."I'm not going anywhere. Aunt Joy, just hurry up and go back. Don't you have to go to work?""I don't need to! Because my daughter was injured and she is still in the hospital now! Not only was my daughter injured, but my house was also robbed! My house was robbed of millions of dollars worth of gold and silver jewelry!" Joy deliberately put an emphasis on the word "robbed.""Little b*tch! Do you know what robbery means? Robbery has a heavier penalty than stealing! Robbery is punishable by death!""No…I don't want to! I don't want to die…" Eira was instantly frightened that she cried. However, she did not dare to cry out loud as she was afraid that she would wake

She was just a ten-year-old child, so how could she understand the intentions and the world of adults? From Eira's understanding, it was just being beaten by Aunt Joy, or if worse comes to worst, she just had to be on all fours in the Steven family's yard and learn to bark like a dog. Other than that, she could be asked to kneel on the floor for Brooke to ride her like a horse and let the entire Stevens family to call her a little beggar. It was fine! It did not matter! Eira could endure it as long as she was not sent to prison. She did not want to be imprisoned. She was not scared out of wits for herself, but for her mother. If she were to be imprisoned, the neighbors certainly would scold her mother even more. They would say that her mother did not teach her daughter well, her daughter was a thief and so on. If that was the case, her mother's crazy condition certainly would worsen. If she was imprisoned, then who would be the one to take care of her mother? Just her brother alone? He

Delmont and Joy had never expected that Eira would refuse. The couple glared at Eira together.Eira's face turned even redder. "I…I still haven’t turned sixteen."She was still a few years shy of turning sixteen years old. She was just a child, how could they let her do such a thing? No! They could ask her to do anything. She could accept having asked to bark like a dog, meow like a cat, be beaten, cursed and chained. However, she absolutely could not agree with what her Aunt Joy had said."I won't go!" Eira retreated in incomparably fear.She was already in her early adolescence. She was no longer ignorant about everything. Once she thought of that kind of scenario, she felt that that certainly was an abyss. That made her more terrified than being imprisoned and being sentenced to death. Therefore, she certainly could not go."Won’t go?" Joy sneered. "Go ahead and retreat all you want. Run back home."Eira was speechless."Eira, there are surveillances everywhere inside the Ste