"Hush... Don't speak. You have caused all this commotion without care. You showed up here, frightened my poor children who are just babies. You struck my wife in her beautiful face. You attacked my children, who will surely be traumatised by seeing their mother being hit in front of them..."

"But, but..." my mother tries to speak again.

"Silence!" Christian roared, his voice thick with anger. "I told you not to speak, just listen! You have no right to speak in this house! And certainly not to yell, hit, or threaten my children and wife!" He listed his accusations, his gaze burning into her with a hatred that even I...