“That’s what you have been wondering all day, your emotions have been way off. Darian has been pestering me all day about it” I nod, and he sighs.
“Nothing bad like you are probably thinking,”
“Then what, Tabitha said she was worse than your father”
“My mother never beat me, Lily.”
“Then what did she do, and how did you get all those scars?”
I trace my fingers over the one that wraps around his shoulder and he shivers. He sighs before answering.
“She used to seek me out, I would run and hide, my father would become enraged and beat her if I weren’t there. Mum would come find me; promise she would help me. She almost seemed like an actual mother in those moments. Hug me and comfort me and I always fell for it. Then she would hand me over to him. Tell me I had to protect her, that it w
