"Dad..." Ruth called out behind him in an incomparably forlorn manner.
Mr. Mann stopped in his tracks, but he did not look back.
He was too ashamed to face Ruth.
He was even more ashamed to face his own late brother and sister-in-law.
"Dad, you and your late brother are true biological brothers, right? I would like to know how you slept every night for more than twenty years? Aren't you afraid of karma or retribution?" When Ruth asked this, she had tears streaming down her face.
After asking that, Ruth laughed by herself again. "Oh yes! You have already received your retribution, haven't you?
"Mindy Mann, your most beloved niece!
"She should be suffering as if going through purgatory on Earth now, right?"
When he heard this, Mr. Mann’s tears poured down his face.
It so happened that, at this moment, his phone rang. M r. Mann answered the call with his trembling hands. " Hello..."
"Dad...Daddy, come save me quickly. I'm dying, Dad. They beat me, stripped me naked, and got more than a hundred men on me. Dad... I won’t be able to take it. Dad...” Mindy was wailing on the other end of the line.
At this moment, what Mindy called out was not 'uncle'.
It was 'dad' instead.
As Mrs. Mann, who was next to him, heard Mindy’s extremely miserable cry for help, she immediately grabbed the phone and said, "Daughter... My daughter, you... How are you now? Mindy, my poor daughter...”
Mrs. Mann let out a howl.
After she finished crying, she immediately rushed to the front of Ruth and knelt. "Ruth, I am begging you, please! Save your sister. Save your sister, alright? For the sake that we've raised you for twenty years, save your sister's life, okay?"
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