She just replied without emotion, “It takes at least four hours to drive from the city to that village. If she can get through it, there’s no need to rush just to save her. If she can’t, well, calling for help now won’t change anything.”
Then she kicked my phone again and the pieces flew everywhere.
I held back my anger and said, “My sister grew up in the city and has never lived in a place like that. She can’t survive in a remote mountain village.”
“Marriage should be about love and equal standing. Letting her marry a random man from a random village is too irresponsible. Since Kevin knows where she is, we should go and bring her back.”
Willa gave me a cold look and said with disdain, “Do you think marriage is a game? Those villagers have their own principles. Once they’re married, it’s for life. The word divorce doesn’t even exist there. Even if you take her away, her husband’s family will find her and drag her back.”
“You’d better forget about it. Once she’s married into that mountain village, she’s never coming back.”
I said through clenched teeth, “Willa, if it were your sister, would you let her suffer like that for the rest of her life?”