‘This is all my fault.’ Those exact words continuously played on Ian’s mind on repeat. Maybe his mother wasn’t the most powerful person in the world, but he was sure she could take care of herself and so he never bothered.
All she ever did was try to protect him, even if she did go about it in the worst way possible, but she tried in her own way, her absurd motherly affections that did nothing but hurt him in the end.
And for that, he ended up saying some really mean stuff to her; he ignored her, abandoned her, and neglected her because her affections were toxic; he just wanted to be free of it.
All he wanted was freedom from her thorny love and while it now seems like he’s got it, the pain that came with it was something he wasn’t expecting.
He wished he had called her like he promise
