Chapter 46

• "Child, what are you saying? What mother doesn't love her son?" Her face scrunched up in a frown, she smelled the alcohol on me. "Why are you drinking? It's not good for your stomach."
• I reclined back and muttered to myself, "If you loved me so much, why could you not see my suffering? Why?"
• My life was a mess without Clara. But she never seemed to understand. She had given me up for her family. Why couldn't she accept Clara for me? It was the one thing I needed to know.