Chapter 2087 Vile Man

Janet's lips trembled. “I...” The single word crumbled, brittle with fear. She stood frozen between two futures—follow Sophia into uncertainty, or stay chained to Bryce and the hollow promises he waved like faded lottery tickets. Earlier, as long as Sophia had been under their roof, Janet would have clung to the marriage, believing a broken home was worse than a poor one. She had endured for the sake of giving her child something called whole.
But Sophia was leaving now. What is left for me in that house? The answer fell like a guillotine. “I'll go with you,” she said, and a boulder rolled off her heart. “Sophia, I'm going with you.”
She had already cost her daughter the man she loved; she refused to hurt her twice. Janet resolved to follow the girl to a city where no one knew their names, to shed the old skin of scandal and begin again with a clean slate.