After hours of telling her daughter the truth from the beginning to the end, the first question that Arianna asked her was, "Was that all a movie or real life?"
"What?" Natalie couldn't believe her. She gave her a deadpanned look, "Really?" After hours of speaking and narrating her sensitive past, this was all she had to say to her. Perhaps her daughter was not an entitled child after all, but a prick. How could she ask that?
"My God," She gasped, the whole thing finally dawning on her, "It wasn't a story," Arianna gagged, wanting to throw up everything that she had eaten, but then, there was literally nothing in her stomach.
"Oh," She was merely in shock, Natalie found out. The woman thought that Edward had raised an unempathetic daughter. Not that Natalie was proud of leaving her, but she only wanted her to understand her circumstances. Her hands were tied. She had no other choice and everything that she had done was for safety.