Rose's POV
The night Daddy banished Mommy, I hid behind the heavy velvet curtains in the sitting room like I always did when they fought.
I watched everything. I saw Daddy's face turn scary and cold. I heard him say the words banished and never come back. I saw Mommy screaming and crying as the guards dragged her away. I didn't cry. I just stood there, hands fisted in my nightgown, waiting for the familiar heavy feeling in my chest.
It's my fault again.
Mommy had told me so many times. Since I was tiny, she would grab my arm too hard and whisper mean things in my ear. "If you were a better daughter, your father would love me. He would choose me. But you're useless. You couldn't even make him look at me the way he looks at her."
Then she would hit me — sometimes with her hand, sometime
