“That’s so unfair!” Red exclaimed.
“Such is the place of a woman in this world. But we women are a strong bunch. We survive. I survived. And I had my father’s gold. It was enough to buy the house where you now live and raise your mother like the doll I always thought of her as.
“But your mother had the same lust that I had. And when she met your father, she fell prey to the same passion I did.”
“Is it true what my mother says about my father?” Red asked no longer knowing what to believe.
“I don’t know what your mother told you about him. But, from what I can tell, he was a boy, not much older than your mother. Like me and your grandfather, your mother and father were in love. It broke her when he left your mother and never came back. Some people say that he was killed during the first
