Chapter 45-Flashback

SOPHIA**

“How dare she?” Mom screams as she slams the door shut behind her. I winced at the sound. “How dare the both of them?” She whirls around to face me. “Your father has done so much to us, and we let it slide. But to think that he never even trusted us with his health?!”

“But did you think leaving was the best thing to do?”

Her eyes narrow. “Don’t tell me you thought of staying over there with those people!”

I grimace. “Not with them, with Dad.”

She scoffs. “He wasn’t acting like your father or my husband when he did a surgery without even telling us. And to think that she was there when he fainted? Do you know what that means?” I shake my head. “It means she's more involved in his life than we thought!”

I know I should be angry at Dad, but I can't find it in myself, especially knowing he was in there fighting for his life. “But, Mom, don't you think leaving him makes them get even closer?”

She slows down and rubs her hands through her head; she knows I made a valid point. “What'