Since begging wouldn't change anything, she didn't want to humiliate herself. She called for a local courier service to send back the bank card Nicholas Croft had given her, and she packed the pajamas she had prepared for him into a plastic bag before throwing them into the trash.
Though it was hard to let go, she couldn't hold onto an illusion and live in daily sorrow.
She recalled that day when Hannah Hargrave mentioned she would reserve the right to sue. Sophie Foster picked up her phone and dialed a sequence of numbers, and when the call was answered, she said coldly, "It was I who hit your darling daughter. If you want to sue, I'm waiting."
On the other end, Henry Hargrave stared at the phone being hung up, unable to react for a long time.
