“You threw an expectant mother onto the street, stole her savings, and dragged her name through the mud,” Vernon said, cold with disgust.

“Then you used your own son’s ruin to pull hundreds of thousands out of the rest of us.”

Junia broke into frantic tears, hands over her face.

“Are you really going to humiliate your own mother in front of the whole family?

What will the neighbors say?

What will people think?”