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The moment Grandma made bail, she hit the ground running, plotting her next move against me. She had spent a lifetime getting things done her way. Mom had never once pushed back, and that had made Grandma more stubborn with every passing year.In her mind, Uncle Oliver died because I had refused to donate. By her math, that made me the person who killed her son.If I was the person who killed her son, I deserved the worst she could come up with.Mom did not want to go along with it, but Grandma threatened to end her own life if Mom refused. Hence, Mom caved and sided with Grandma once again.The comments passed all of this along to me in real time.With that kind of warning system, I was not worried. If they came at me again, I would do exactly what I had done in the alley. I would let them walk into the trap, then watch them earn themselves another stint behind bars.While Grandma was consumed with vengeance and Mom was being torn apart between playing the devoted daughter and b

The people who had believed me all along were vindicated in an instant.Those who had insisted that 'parents can do no wrong' and that children should comply with whatever their elders demanded were stunned into silence by what Grandma had actually done.[This is supposed to be family? She was ready to kidnap the kid and cut out his kidney!][Even an enemy wouldn't go that far!][The nerve of this woman, playing the helpless elder on camera after everything she's done.]Everyone who had sided with Grandma did an about-face and turned their anger on her instead.Some people held rotten values, and they always would. However, the world, on the whole, still had more decent people than not.There were a few who had taken filial duty to such an extreme that they genuinely believed elders held the power of life and death over their children, and that no matter what an elder did, the younger generation had no right to complain. Yet even those people did not want to become targets the