"Please. Don't hurt him."
Grace yelled once more, trying to stop her mother from begging for that good-for-nothing father. Penny, on the other hand, could only watch this unfold in disbelief.
Anyone could tell that woman was beaten every second of her life by that man. Her bruises were enough to tell that the man never held back. If anything, it seemed he was slowly killing her. No one would be surprised if she ended up dead in his hands.
And yet, now that someone was standing up for her, she was begging him not to hurt her abuser?
What an irony.
Penny slowly shifted her eyes to Grace, understanding why Grace told her in the past her mother left her. What Grace's mother was doing wasn't protecting Grace, but protecting that monster. The woman could've died or left, but what she was doing right now was already abandoning her daughter.
"Ma'am," Hugo called sternly, but the woman clasped his leg even tighter.
