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I gape at her. Too shocked to be upset. “She would never.”
“Oh, Edie, you don’t know what she was like after Levi killed Dad…”
“Levi, the monster,” I stress. How can she be so blind?
“It’s not that simple. Look, losing Dad was bad enough, but when my contacts in the resistance told us you were dead, Mom lost her s**t. She could barely function. I didn’t know someone could cry so much. But the worst part was when she stopped crying. It was so bad, Edie. It was almost like she was a different person. Like something had permanently broken inside of her. She was scared all the time, certain they were going to kill us too.” A tear slides down Mavis’ face.
Tucking away her tissue, Mavis continues, “I thought she’d get past it. Go back to being Mom. But she only got worse. She started dri
