"My butt... Oww... It hurts..."
Felix pressed on her tailbone, and Tang Xiaonan shrieked like a pig being slaughtered. She lay pitifully on his shoulder, and it broke Felix's heart to see her. He yelled at Mrs. Golding, "If you're angry, take it out on me! What are you doing hitting a child?"
"You damned old hag! I'll kill you!"
Phoebe Huxley's eyes were bloodshot. She flung Phoenix Golding aside, ready to teach Mrs. Golding a lesson.
"Stop!"
Raina arrived just in time, shouting for Phoebe Huxley to stop. If that punch had actually landed, the Thorne family would have gone from being in the right to being in the wrong.
"Grandma..."
Tang Xiaonan cried out, her eyes welling with tears. Raina checked her wrist, her own gaze sharpening. Then she lifted the girl's shirt. Seeing the large, blood-streaked bruise on her lower back, Raina's eyes turned as cold as ice.
