"Where—"
"Just let him be," Jay told Maya as he refused to let go of her. "You've done enough damage."
"Me?" Maya questioned as she looked around.
The crowd had begun to disperse, but her cousin, Gary, was clearly unhappy with her interference.
"Can't you see he's hurting?" Jay asked as Maya noticed her cousin marching up to them.
Gary was turning red as a tomato in anger.
To be honest it seemed quite comical to Maya. She knew that Gary and his father never liked her branch of the family, probably because despite her being born a woman, their grandfather still favored her as heir.
"How dare you embarrass your own family in public?!" Gary hissed as he tried to keep his voice as low as possible.
It was enough that Maya, a woman, had made him back down, but she had also defended him against a man that had abandoned and hurt her. Someone who had ruined their good family name by manipulating her and leaving her alone to face all the challenges after.
