Chapter 66

"You! What are you trying to do?" Megan looked at her, terrified. This girl was skinny and looked weak, but the air around her? It felt like she could kill someone without blinking. "What am I doing? Just letting you have a taste of what it's like to be shamed by the world after spending one night with four men." George's face turned red in an instant. "Elizabeth! What nonsense are you saying? Megan is your aunt! You're a young lady—how can you talk like that?" Honestly, his niece really turned out just like his wife said—fearless to the extreme. Elizabeth glanced at him. "Uncle, I don't think you know what Megan did, do you? She took money from Sophia, lied to my mom saying you'd racked up gambling debts and were about to be beaten to death, and then lured my mom to The Amberson House. In the hotel room? Two homeless guys waiting. That's your wife!" It hurt Elizabeth to say all that. She remembered how her uncle used to treat her kindly when she was little, buying her candy, singing t