Chapter 52 "I Love You" (2)

• “My stepmother... I didn't know how long she's been drugging me. I thought I was just scared of her. Since young, she dictated my life. What to eat, what to wear, where to go. Just seeing her makes me tremble. I knew something wasn't right. And that day... I figured it out. She's been drugging me. To make me follow her words. And until now, there was a part of myself that I wanted to go back.”
• There was no end to the tears.
• She was letting out all the anguish that had built up for so long, and she cried so hard her face reddened