“I say, ma’am, did you see me scam your younger sister?” Waylon said patiently.
“I didn’t see it, but I can imagine what happened. You’re using a battered luxury car to scam people for huge amounts of money!” Jennie said angrily.
You sure have a vivid imagination! Waylon thought.
“You must’ve had quite a lot of victims, right?”
Go on, I’d like to listen to what you have to say! Waylon thought.
“I don’t care who else you’ve scammed, but you shouldn’t have scammed my younger sister! Twice, even! You know that Doris is a pushover, don’t you? Not me though! Did you know how much Doris had to suffer for the past few years? Do you have a conscience?”
How would I know? Don’t I have anything better to do? Waylon thought.
“My younger sister married Josiah Wharton at a young age, but neither of them expected that he’d be impotent!”
Why are you telling me that? I feel sorry for you! Waylon thought.
“Doris can’t get pregnant, so her mother-in-law criticized her every day. At the end of her wits, she took her savings and got herself pregnant with in-vitro fertilization.”
So that’s how the twins came about. Waylon thought.
“Just because the twins are from the sperm bank and not from the father, her mother-in-law didn’t want to treat them as her grandchildren! You saw how cute the babies are, didn’t you?”
Yes, I have, but what does that have to do with me? Waylon thought.
“The children did nothing wrong!” Jennie was already sobbing at this point. “That stupid old lady is trying to convince her son to divorce Doris. Doris didn’t want the divorce, and can you guess what happened?”
I can’t. What happened? Waylon thought.
“In an undeserving stroke of luck, that man was fertile again! He had an affair, and the mistress is now pregnant! Where’s the justice in all of this? She’ll have to go through with the divorce, right?”
“No!” Waylon was indignant. “They’re bullies!”
“Isn’t that so! They’re insistent about the divorce, but he’s not going to pay her alimony!”
“That scumbag!”
“Doris has to raise two children by herself. She can’t secure a full-time job, and her income is from live streaming. Do you think she can provide her children a comfortable life?”
Waylon was silent. I don’t think so. You’re making me feel sorry for her.
“She has custody of the children, but she doesn’t know who the father is. Where is she going to get her alimony?”
D*mn! Waylon thought.
“Life is already hard for her.” Jennie sniffled. “Why did she have to meet you twice? Where’s the justice? Oh, my poor sister!”
Jennie slapped her thighs and began to wail.
Waylon had a feeling he was the one being scammed.
“Your younger sister is fine, isn’t she? You sound like you’re going to avenge her death or something,” he said.
“I’m only telling it as it is!” Jennie said.
“From a humanitarian point of view, I sympathize with her,” Waylon said impatiently. “But all that has nothing to do with me. You should leave now, Ms. Whittaker.”
“What do you mean, it has nothing to do with you?” Jennie stared at Waylon. “My sister wouldn’t have asked me for money if it had nothing to do with you! Don’t you know how prideful Doris once was? She’s forced to ask me, or to be exact, my husband, for money. I got scolded because of that!”
