Chapter 12 - Ryan Confronts His Mother About Past Childhood Control
“Diane Vance, you are being detained for questioning regarding multiple counts of domestic battery,” Sergeant Miller stated.
He pulled a pair of steel handcuffs from his tactical belt and stepped closer to my mother.
“You can’t arrest me! I’m his mother! I raised him by myself after his father walked out!” Diane shrieked.
“And you spent my entire childhood controlling every single breath I took, just like you tried to control Emily,” I said.
She stopped struggling for a brief second, staring at me with cold, venomous hatred in her eyes.
“I protected you from the world, and this is how you repay me by siding with an outsider?” she spat.
“She is my wife and the mother of my child; you are a monster who belongs behind bars,” I answered flatly.
The officer snapped the handcuffs tightly around her wrists, leading her away toward the exit doors.
She cursed my name all the way down the hospital corridor until the automatic doors slid shut behind her.
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For the first time in my thirty-two years of life, the heavy shadow of my mother’s control finally lifted.
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