Chapter 258

Aria's POV As we left the restaurant, Lillian couldn't hold back anymore. "Were they messing with us?" she fumed, her face flushed with anger. "They sounded so reasonable on the phone, but then face-to-face they basically accused us of extortion!" "Do I look like I need their pathetic money?" I snapped, my hand clenching around my purse strap. "Extortion? Really? Is my middle-of-the-night emergency room visit only worth a thousand dollars to them?" The medical expenses had exceeded a thousand because Lillian had called an ambulance and I'd been rushed to the emergency room. Meanwhile, Aiden had taken me to the hospital separately for additional tests, though I hadn't stayed in the ER, which came to about seven or eight hundred dollars. Add our meal cost of several hundred, and the restaurant's total compensation offer didn't even reach twenty-five hundred dollars. That was their idea of taking responsibility. While I wasn't as visibly angry as Lillian, I felt the restaurant manager had