Selene stared at her father in shock, her heart dipped and her stomach sunk. “What?” she was barely able to utter the word.
“You heard exactly what I said, since you love your mother so much, carry her surname instead.” Grandma Maya watched Grandpa Miller in uncertainty but said nothing.
Selene frowned,’ Was her father disowning her?’ She was wilful and stubborn, she had done a lot of things that could be called excessive but she did all this to make them see her side of the story. She just wanted the love and respect that they were giving Anna to be given to her as well.
In all her years growing up she had been beaten, snubbed, scolded, even verbally abused but never once did she think that her family would sever ties with her.
“We will no longer have anything to do with you and you
