Chapter 218: What’s true love...
Remus stared back at her without a thought behind his eyes. It was as though her words simply went over his head.
Tears still streamed, but the frenzied pleadings halted. Head tilted and mouth agape, everything else, besides his twitching eyebrows, froze in place.
"Do you understand me, Rem? Say you do," she held his hands in hers.
In response, the boy said he understood as it was asked of him, but his head offered a different answer as it shook from left to right ever so slowly.
"Do you see what I mean, now?" Silas’ voice came from the side, "He will obey every order you give him, but that is all,"
"I’ll be good, I promise! Can we go now, mother?"
At those words, Arabella sighed sharply, allowing her forehead to fall on their connected hands, "Oh dear...," she muttered, "Remus," the young woman spoke again after inhaling deeply and raising her gaze towards the kid, "I am not your mother,"
"Father doesn’t lie!" he cried, his voice echoing throughout the dungeon.
"I never said he lied," she shook her head, "I said he was wrong to say what he told you about me. He was wrong to try and keep me against my will,"
"But he was only going to give you a family,"
"That is not how you build a family, Rem,"