Chapter 109: You talk too much
Damon let out a sigh of relief after hearing the woman’s words. Both in his last life and this life, Mark had told him again and again, repeatedly, that he had given up on his mother and wanted nothing to do with her.
Kate was the same. Both of them had said the same thing, and yet there was always pain that came along with those statements. Even if it was the worst woman in the whole world, when it came to a mother, it was impossible for the heart to fully shut that door.
No matter how much betrayal, how much absence, how many wounds had piled up, there was a quiet ache that lingered behind every word, a child’s instinctive hope that maybe, just maybe, this time would be different.
But now, hearing her plead like that, Damon understood the truth. Their mom hadn’t given up on them completely. She was naive and stupid and probably gullible enough to believe men like Hector, but at the end of the day, at least she was suffering in silence rather than trapping her own daughter to get out of this hell.
...and that changed everything.
Damon exhaled slowly, eyes locked on the sight of her trembling form on the floor. She was bruised, humiliated, and completely powerless, but still begging for her children’s safety instead of her own. Maybe it wasn’t redemption. Maybe it wasn’t even love in the way Kate and Mark needed it. But it was something. A line she hadn’t crossed.
That was enough for Damon.
Damon had never planned to interfere with this woman or save her from anything. But right now, he made a decision for the sake of his friends. If he left her here like this, Mark or Kate would probably not hold it against him, but it would always leave a deep scar in their relationship and also in their own heart.
He did not want that for them. Maybe there was a second chance waiting for everyone.