Escalating

CHAPTER 127 *TESSA* This must be very entertaining for them but I wish they could realize how sad it was for someone else. “You all should be ashamed of yourselves.Aren’t you ever tired of playing the detectives in people’s life?”I heard my mom’s voice. I turned to see her coming out of the house. Oh I wish she hadn’t heard what the women had been talking about. “Shameless?”One of the women,Vivian asked as they all came out to face my mother. My mother had never confronted them about their fowl mouths before… They used to talk about Patrick saying he had abandoned us… They had gone as far as saying my mother was the one who couldn’t keep her man… But my mother had always told us to ignore them. “What?I know this is the 21st century and a lot of things are being normalized but as a Christian that you are,you should know that having a child out of wedlock is a shameful thing.”Another woman blasted my mother. “You can talk about me all you want.But get my daughter’s name out of your mouth