She just shed some tears, and the townfolks bought it.
They turned on me, pissed that I was making a scene. “If you didn’t want to get married, why didn’t you say so earlier?”
“And now you’re throwing accusations at Jethro’s family? What an ungrateful bastard!”
I hadn’t said anything before because I couldn’t risk my brother getting suspicious.
Everything had to play out the same way it did in my last life.
Only then would my brother stay clueless. Only then could we switch bodies back.
And sure enough, a police siren blared from the town entrance.
‘I knew it! Mom and Dad had brought the cops to find me!’
At that moment, I turned the knife toward Tavian and Faron, who were stumbling back from the backyard, clutching their stomachs.
“They’ve got trafficked women locked up in their houses! Go check if you don’t believe me!”
The townfolks erupted in chaos.
Someone muttered that nine years ago, Tavian had suddenly shown up with a baby, claiming he found it while herding sheep.
Someone else said they’d heard Faron beating a woman in the middle of the night. When asked, he’d just laughed it off as the TV.
The more they thought about it, the more my words started making sense.