Chapter 49: Retribution

The world tipped out from underneath me at his words. They kept repeating in my brain over and over, like some sort of sick song stuck on repeat. I felt Ezra behind me, holding me up, but all I could do was stare into his gray eyes. The eyes that had caused every single horrible thing that had ever happened in my life.

"Why?" I gasped out, leaning back into Ezra for strength. His arms wrapped around me as if he was trying to cocoon me. Trying to protect me from whatever happened next.

"Why? Because of your whore of a mother, that's why." Bobby's eyes were lit with rage as he spits out his words. They were words he had been holding in for years and now they came out in a torrent. "Did you know that your dear mother was at one point my wife?"

I shook my head in disbelief. No way. There was no way my mother would possibly ever be married to this man. No way that she wouldn't have been able to see him for what he was – insane.