Chapter 632: The Lies That Keep You Alive
Warning: This chapter contains sensitive and distressing themes, including violence and the abuse of a minor.
Her body burned in a way that felt unnatural, her limbs too heavy to move, her thoughts slipping in and out of clarity as the heat pressed down on her from the inside.
Her mother came not long after.
Sophia remembered that moment with a clarity that stood apart from everything else.
There had been no concern in her voice when she spoke, no softness in the way she looked at her.
Only anger.
"You're sick," she said accusingly.
Sophia, already weak, could only shake her head faintly, her voice trembling as she tried to explain that she had not meant for it to happen.
But her words did not matter.
What mattered was that she had failed.
The task her mother had given her, the one Sophia could not even remember, had not been completed, and in her mother's eyes, that was the only thing that mattered.
