Rhea apologized to Jack Johnson, saying, “I’m sorry, Mr Johnson. We are in no position to lecture you on how you should manage your family affairs.”
“Yes you are not,” Mr Johnson said glaring at Aron, but then he looked at Rhea and said in a softer, almost submissive voice, “But if you were what would have been your advice to me?”
Rhea looked at the man carefully and felt thoroughly exhausted as she thought of the years of torment that his daughter must have endured just because Mr Johnson and his son-in-law struck a bargain of regular payments in return for keeping the marriage on. What that man should have cherished with all his life was reduced to barter, because Mr Johnson reinforced his sense of entitlement by paying him more money instead of outing him for his crime.
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