Severed Ties

Tristan froze, shocked. 'So my own mother was just waiting for me to die?' he thought.

It finally hit him. His mother didn't love him at all.

Growing up, aside from making sure he obeyed, she kept him on a tight leash and was always cold toward him.

He'd always thought that was just what a mother's love looked like. As a kid, with his dad never around, he told himself her strictness was for his ow