{"id":30664,"date":"2025-10-30T15:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=30664"},"modified":"2025-10-30T15:58:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:58:16","slug":"30664","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=30664","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2370\" data-end=\"2436\">I took her hand. \u201cDon\u2019t worry, sweetheart. This isn\u2019t your fault.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2438\" data-end=\"2567\">I had no intention of hurting Anna \u2014 only of teaching her mother a lesson. But when I saw the fear in her eyes, my anger wavered.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2569\" data-end=\"2628\">Then Margaret stormed up, furious. \u201cWas this your doing?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2630\" data-end=\"2726\">I met her glare evenly. \u201cYou thanked my company, Margaret. And my company takes orders from me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2728\" data-end=\"2867\">For a moment, she just stared, speechless, as realization hit her \u2014 the \u201cpoor aunt\u201d she\u2019d ridiculed was the woman running the entire event.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2869\" data-end=\"2944\">Anna tugged my sleeve, whispering through tears, \u201cPlease\u2026 can we fix this?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2869\" data-end=\"2944\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=30665\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-26790 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"905\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading.jpeg 905w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading-300x75.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading-768x191.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took her hand. \u201cDon\u2019t worry, sweetheart. This isn\u2019t your fault.\u201d I had no intention of hurting Anna \u2014 only of teaching her mother a lesson. But when I saw the fear in her eyes, my anger wavered. Then Margaret stormed up, furious. \u201cWas this your doing?\u201d I met her glare evenly. \u201cYou thanked my&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=30664\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30695,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30664\/revisions\/30695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}