Chapter 7

"Donavan, I did give you a necklace, but didn't you look down on it? Your necklace probably ended up in the trash can long ago."

When Donavan was young and sickly, I went to church to get him a lucky necklace to bless him with good health.

But later, when he started despising me, he naturally despised the things I gave him too, and threw away the lucky charm early on.

Luna's necklace was something I specially got from church when I first came back, to thank the heavens for letting me regain what I had lost.

"Mom..." Big teardrops rolled down Donavan's face. "Please don't abandon me."

A mocking smile tugged at the corner of my mouth.

"Don't call me mom. I can't bear it.

Donavan, you're the one who looked down on me. No matter how good I was to you, I could never measure up to Celeste, whom you didn't even know.