Chapter 76

Katerina:

“Are you sure that you don’t want to tell mom, Katerina?” Donatello asked, looking at me as the two of us walked through the house’s garden. He knew that I wasn’t one to like to hide things; however, time showed me more than once that I couldn’t trust the woman, and plus, I didn’t really need to remind him that the woman abandoned the two of us as children.

“Donatello, you may be able to trust her enough to call her mum, but I only do that out of respect. We both know that she is no mother to me after what she did, and I know that you would tell me that she had to, and that she needed to ensure that I was safe, and the thousand other excuses. But she left me to die, Donatello. A child is not to be left in the streets alone, anyone could have kidnapped or hurt me, and she isn’t stupid as not to know that. She went to live her life and never bothered once to check on whether or not I was alive” I said, looking at my older brother who sighed but nodded in understanding “she wo