Chapter 9: A sign

It's been a day since my encounter with Lesly and things have gotten drastically worse. She was wreaking havoc in the packhouse. She has always gotten what she wants, no matter what and now she wasn't.

I told her she couldn't see Eion anymore because I didn't feel comfortable leaving him in her care knowing the things she was saying to him about me. I was his mother and my trust in her had waned from the incident. Her very loud response before everyone in the main hall was:

"It's better he knows his mother is an overweight trailer trash from now so he'll be immune to it when he gets older."

I had enough. I tried to stand firm on it and I was honestly still upset that she thought it was okay to do that. He was so young and impressionable. It was beyond cruel to talk to a child like that about their parents. I couldn't or wouldn't let him endure that and I felt terrible for what had happened.

He was my baby and I loved him more than anything. I had to protect him at all costs. I know h