"Your whole family, from top to bottom, loves to take advantage of people. I wonder who it was that just pretended to buy candy, taking advantage of that poor, hardworking vendor? If you don't have money, then don't buy anything! You wasted half an hour of his time. That's a pretty big advantage to take. Like mother, like daughter. Your whole family is rotten to the core."
Patrick Thorne jeered, his voice dripping with sarcasm. He couldn't stand Jacqueline Spann's pure-as-driven-snow act. 'What's so special about her? Just a little whore born from a bigger one. Who does she think she's fooling?'
Jacqueline Spann's face flushed a deep, ugly crimson. She couldn't believe the vendor had told Patrick Thorne and the others. She felt as if she'd been stripped naked and paraded through the streets, with no privacy left at all.
'No wonder Adrian Hawthorne was acting so strangely today. Does he also think I'm the type to take petty advantages?'
