Betty couldn't believe what she had just heard. Was Max really going to come and pick her up?
She was so excited about it.
“I can't believe this, Drey! I can't! I'm going home!” She yelled. “Uncle is going to pick me up!”
“Well, you deserve to. No family deserves to expel you.”
She actually had a second thought about that. She thought Drey merely saw it like that because he was her husband and he loved her. So, she felt moved, but she knew that was never the case with her family.
Even when she was younger, they had always acted like that, especially after the incident that happened ten years ago. Her own family felt like a bet she could lose at any time.
Even all these years that she felt ostracised, the only thing that kept her going was the fact that they didn't expel her from the
