"I will not allow the likes of you to ruin my marriage. Understand me?”
I nodded and couldn’t raise my head up.
“Get out of my sight and prepare for school tomorrow. If you can’t stand up for yourself, you might as well be as good as dead. Then you wouldn’t be such a nuisance to me and to anyone else. Or you might as well go meet your useless father and his whore.”
“Is that the manner you choose to talk to your only child?”
I looked behind me and saw Aiden stepping forward onto our spot.
“Excuse me.” She frowned.
“You heard me the first time.”
“Aiden, this has nothing to do with you.”
“Of course it does. You are my stepmother and she is my stepsister. She is the youngest in this household. Of course, it has something to do with me.”
“What is that supposed to mean?”
“You fou
