“We harmed you? It was that bitch Mia who abandoned you! That’s why you got beaten like this!”

“Shut up!” I roared. “I won’t allow you to say a single bad word about Mia!”

“She wasn’t wrong to leave me. I owe her. As long as she’s safe, that’s enough.”

“This is your fault! If you hadn’t enabled him, Joe would never have dared treat me like that!”

Luna Selena had never looked at me with such anger and disappointment. Before, she’d only thought I was blinded by Mia—believed that once I suffered enough, I’d realize how good my family was to me.

But she had been far too naïve....