Chapter 2 Don’t Be Ungrateful
It had only been several hours, yet my phone was already blowing up with calls and messages from relatives, all demanding I pay back the money.
My cousin’s family had been trashing my reputation for a long time. So, everyone would take their word for it. No one would ever bother to listen to little old me. To them, my side of the story didn’t matter.
So, I blocked them all.
The very next day, Jasmine and my aunt showed up at my workplace, dragging a group of relatives with them. They barged in like they were out for blood.
As soon as Jasmine spotted me, she dropped to her knees, her eyes red and swollen from crying. “Please, Kaelyn, I’m begging you! Just return the money for Grandma’s surgery. You can buy a car any time, but she won’t even make it to the end of the month if she doesn’t receive the surgery!”
A crowd of coworkers gathered, curious about the scene.
Of course, my relatives wasted no time twisting the story, exaggerating like they had so many times before.
Colleagues who had been friendly with me now shot me looks of suspicion and disgust, their opinions shifting in an instant.
“Who would’ve thought a quiet girl like her could stoop so low? Stealing her own grandmother’s surgery money!”
“Stealing to buy a car, too! What kind of person does that?”
