Mr. Newman looked at his niece and said, “Mr. Callum, my niece is different from others. She can’t see. If you don’t take responsibility for seeing her exposed, she’ll never be able to get married.”
“Uncle!”
Camryn said solemnly, “I won’t marry, and I don’t need Mr. Callum to be responsible for me. I didn’t suffer any losses. I wasn’t taken advantage of by that man that night, so there’s no need for Mr. Callum to take responsibility.”
Mr. Newman was not her real father, but he was her elder.
He was also her stepfather.
Mr. Newman making such a request to Callum made Camryn feel so humiliated that she wanted to bury herself in the ground.
“Camryn, I promised your dad that I would raise you into an adult and find a good husband for you. I didn’t take care of you and caused you to lose your sight. I’m already feeling guilty about it. If I don’t help you find a suitable husband, I won’t have the face to see your father when I die.”
Mr. Newman was actually doing this to ruin Camryn’s image in Callum’s eyes. He wanted Callum and the York family to look down on Camryn.
If he knew that Old Mrs. York had decided to make his niece her second granddaughter-in-law, he would probably have spit blood.
“Mr. Callum, look...”
Callum looked at Camryn and said, “You mean to say that if I don’t marry Ms. Camryn, she’d be single for the rest of her life. How can I bear to let that happen to her? Ms. Newman...”
“Mr. Callum!”
Camryn interrupted Callum’s words with a tense face.
“Mr. Callum, I don’t need you to be responsible for me.” She turned to Mr. Newman and said again seriously, “Uncle, stop forcing Mr. Callum to marry me. I don’t need it! Marrying me off isn’t even your real goal. Why don’t you just tell Mr. Callum what you want? Why are you using me as a bargaining chip?
“Mr. Callum, what my uncle really wants is for you to step in and help mediate so that your sister-in-law’s sister can compromise and help my mother get a lighter sentence.”
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