"I won't! I won't let go until you give me the money! If I have to, I'll stall you here all day so everyone can see how cold-blooded you are!"
Miles was going all in on his shameless tactics.
"Fine." Eliza pulled out her phone.
"Since you have no shame, let's have the police settle this."
"Illegal gambling, dealing with loan sharks, assault and battery in a hospital, and extortion."
"Let's see who the cops arrest when they get here. Do you want to rot in a cell?"
Miles froze completely, his wailing abruptly cutting off.
He looked up into Eliza's merciless, frozen eyes and finally felt a genuine spike of terror.
Gritting his teeth, he immediately released her legs and scrambled to his feet, pointing a trembling, furious finger at her. "Eliza, you bitch! You win! Just you wait!"
"Miles!"
Eliza shouted sharply, stopping him in his tracks. Ignoring the shocked stares of everyone around her, she delivered every word with lethal precision:
"Since we were kids, every single resource in this family went straight to you! Mom and Dad bankrupted themselves just to get you into the best schools!"
"My dance competition prize money was entirely stolen by Mom to pay for your tutoring! This whole family sacrificed everything to carry you, treating you like a god!"
"And what did you do? You couldn't even test into a community college! You spend every day running around with thugs and degenerates!"
"Now you're a gambling addict, and you even dared to steal Dad's life-saving medical money! You are nothing but a parasite sucking the blood out of this family! What gives you the right to call me heartless?"
Her words hit the floor like a sledgehammer.
The crowd, who had just been mocking and judging Eliza, instantly turned their gazes on Miles, their eyes filled with absolute disgust and contempt.
Miles's face turned green, then white. Under the crushing weight of a dozen pointing fingers, he cursed out 'crazy bitch' in a humiliated rage and cowardly pushed his way through the crowd, fleeing the scene.
The onlookers gradually dispersed.


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