Her child

Marlani’s Pov

The problem with raising a child on your own for a few years especially during his teenage years was how you would occasionally find yourself trying not to overstep your boundaries.

Even after his father came back and I was no longer doing it on my own, it seemed like it became even more difficult. His father had tried everything to make up for the years he missed in Eggust’s life, but Eggust still wouldn’t let him play his role.

I was worried about Eggust for a long while, we had thought of taking him for therapy, but his father suggested it was teenage tantrums, and when he’s much older, things would get better. I wanted to believe him, but something at the back of my mind always told me it was deeper than we thought. It felt like there was a particular void in his life we couldn’t fill, no matter how hard we tried.

Eggust, as a child, had been... Temperamental. He was the sort of child with a strong headedness that couldn't be deterred no matter what.