I have stood and listened to the confrontation between Livvy and her parents, totally shocked by the revelation that had come to light. I look at Noah as Livvy asks me to leave with her. Of course, I would not refuse her. After all, I think, considering the circumstances and the things her parents have said, she has every right to leave now. They do not deserve to call her their daughter.
Anger pulses through my body right now, sheer fury that they have treated her so badly over the years for the bad choices her own mother had made. This was not Livvy’s fault. Yet she had been the one to suffer. Noah nodded at me. I can see the pain written all across his face. I cannot begin to imagine the suffering he must be enduring at this moment. Everything he had ever known had been shredded in fr
