The Cost of Letting Go

Rhona’s POV

“How can you say that?” I said in response. For my child, I had infinite patience, but she wasn’t making things easy.

Seeing her as she was now, so insecure and shaken, so easily taken advantage of by the master of this house, I wanted to shake her. Where was the brave and bold girl I had watched grow up from the shadows? Had Valerie’s appearance and her family’s betrayal affected Mall