Chapter 64

When the villagers suddenly questioned him, Richard was caught off guard and froze for a second. But after all, he had three more decades of life experience than Lily, so he quickly tried to pull himself together. He scowled and glared at everyone. "What's the big idea here? Y'all really think I, Richard, pocketed your hard-earned money?" Juliet let out a cold snort. "Didn't you? We all know those fruits sold for twenty bucks a kilo, but you came back telling us the buyer only paid five. Just tell me-how much did you skim off the top? If it was ten or fifteen bucks, maybe we'd let it slide. After all, it's fair to expect some labor fee. "But you took fifteen bucks from every kilo! That's a whole lot of money! You even know what that means for us? Last month, my ma couldn't get her meds because we were broke, and Anna's father... he literally died because we couldn't afford his treatment. Do you still have any shred of conscience left?" So that was the story-no wonder Delia felt somethi