Chapter 167 - Comfort In Despair.

Ella was an impressionable child, and it was important that her formative years had some sort of foundation for her to take off from. Veronica did her best, but there was only so much she could do at this point, because, at the end of the day, she was an employee to the family. She didn't answer to the kids; she answered to the parents, as they were the recognized authority of the household.