Chapter 54

“We talked and I already told you, you belong to me. I belong to you. You don’t have to keep throwing it into my face that you don’t love me. But, you have come to care about me and you said you never would. It’s an improvement and maybe, someday, you will come to love me, too. It hurts when you say you love Christian but not me. I know he is your son and it’s different even though I don’t see how, but I guess that’s because my mother wasn’t like you. I’m trying really hard to let you have a normal life, but I can’t let you go. At first, I couldn’t let you go because of what I’d done, but now I can’t live without you. You and Christian are my whole world. I don’t want you to leave me.”