“Come get your worthless daughter and take her back,” my mother-in-law shouted my father as I lay broken at the bottom of the stairs after my husband shoved me down. “Your family will answer for it if she has even a scratch,” was the sole warning Dad offered her. They had no notion who my father really was, so they made fun of him.
“Will you be going with me at once?she looked.
I promised, “I’ll be right there with you as soon as the doctor says I can go.”
“Yay,” cheered Maya softly.
“Mrs.
‘Gable said she will bring over my pink star pyjamas tomorrow.
“Your favourite pyjamas ever,” I grinned.
“Yeah, the ones with the shiny stars.” She smiled and nodded.
Maya’s curious eyes suddenly fell on the photograph on Gabriel’s table.