Chapter 5 - Remembering How Chloe Suffered Through The Same Cruel Tactics
Ethan lay awake in the dark, his mind racing back through decades of buried childhood memories.
He remembered Chloe sitting at the dinner table years ago, staring down at her plate with tears in her eyes.
Their father, Harold, had lectured her about the rising cost of groceries while Martha nodded in cold agreement.
Ethan had been too young and too terrified to speak up, fearing he would become the next target of their emotional manipulation.
He had survived by keeping his head down, working hard, and eventually moving out the moment he turned eighteen.
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He had foolishly believed that marrying Natalie and having Emma would somehow soften his parents into normal grandparents.
Instead, they had simply found a new, innocent victim to torture with their decades-old playbook of financial guilt.
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