Chapter 15

The next time Sean met Angeline, he was 17 years old, and she was 12.

Angeline had been stabbed twice because she wanted to save Ned. She lay on the hospital bed and refused the Lawsons' help once again.

She was a scrawny kid back then. She told them calmly and seriously, "Outcasts should stay out of other people's lives. We should just do whatever is necessary so that we won't harbor expectations of anyone else. So, please don't interfere with my life. This is for the Lawsons … and you."

Sean had felt that it was unfair to her back then, but Angeline's calm reply made him come back to his senses.

That was when he went behind the Lawsons' backs and told the Fletchers that if they brought Angeline up in the guise of repaying her for the favor, the Lawsons would continue supporting them.

This was the only time that Sean had ever interfered in Angeline's business.

It was also then that Sean started paying a little more attention to this girl who was focused on just "doing whatever w