Chapter 5
Thinking of the sacrifices she’d made for him, he promised himself he’d call her this week. But whenever they did speak, their conversations often left him reeling from the painful memories she always brought up. She was so adamant about things—never considering his feelings. She’d raised him to be a tyrant, like his father, but he had a gentler nature she refused to acknowledge in him. Maybe he was more like his real mother? But how could he know? His mother had abandoned him before his second birthday. Left him with his father in the middle of the night and never came back. Not once had she called or reached out to him in any way.
But she was still alive, his stepmother said. Still out there ignoring him. Maybe, one day, when his name was known around the world, she’d regret walking out on him…