Promise of Revenge

“What did that person do to make him punish her like that?” She asked, looking very interested in the answer and at the same time thoughtful.

“Do you believe that anything this person has done would justify such cruelty?”

Anna looked at the drizzling screen. She couldn't tell Maxwell that that was exactly what she would do to Sarah. For killing her mother, and for trying to kill her, and her son. I couldn't. Maxwell was too good, and he would stop loving her. But neither would he show any displeasure at what had been done.

“But the man did something, didn't he?” she insisted, because she was so inspired.

Maxwell stared at her as if seeing her for the first time. She seemed to agree. He didn't want to think that she was like that. He loved her, and even if she had the same psychosis as her brother inside her, he would never abandon her. But something in his chest told him that her father had taken too long to come and get her, and that leaving her with Adam had de