The anger dissipated as Thorne wrapped his arms around me. He kissed me head and engulfed me in his chest “my father use to beat me, my brothers and my mother. He said it would toughen us up and ready us for harsh reality. In a way he wasn’t wrong. We all became tough, though it never helped my mother. It sounds like Lydia had a tough life it was the same excuse my mother gave my father. But we all have difficulties in our lives and yes some can be worse than others, but it doesn’t give one the excuse to be cruel to others. Most especially the ones we love” I could hear him sniffing.
This was clearly hard for him to talk about “those of us that experience the worst of life have a duty to brake the chain that caused that path. It might not be fare, but we owe it to the ones that bring us h
