As soon as those words left his mouth, the onlooking crowd around us erupted.
My father's face drained of color, stammering incoherently. "Y-you're spouting slander!"
Spencer made a gesture.
The lawyer held up a yellowed receipt and the police case report from that year.
"The evidence is irrefutable. Daphne was only sent back to you after the buyer was arrested. You call that doing your duty as parents?"
I stood frozen on the spot, trembling all over.
This incident was the deepest scar in my heart, and the very reason I had fought so hard to run away.
Spencer squeezed my hand tightly, wordlessly lending me strength.
"My woman chose not to sue you out of consideration for the little past between you. But look at you, you showed up at our door practically begging to get yourselves th
