“That’s my mother,” Benjamin explained with tears in his eyes. “It wasn’t enough that they killed me and got away with it because their wealthy parents bribed the government officials and hushed the whole thing up. They had to humiliate my mother, as well. She lost her sanity after my death.”
“Where was your father?”
“He had already gotten married to another woman years prior. Remember?”
“Oh, right. Were your parents finally divorced—”
Benjamin scoffed. “Of course not, but the son of a b***h who contributed his sperm and sired me was a man. The life of a woman thousands of years ago was horrible. Before a woman was given away like a prize cattle or a breeding cow to a man of her father’s choosing, she had to obey her father at home. Her position in her family would always be lower than
