Darkest Hour

Babe's POV

"This mate thing is more complicated than what you think" my aunt explained.

"No! I don't care about the mate thing. I care about the responsibility that my father had towards my mother and me which he neglected because he found his mate," I replied with a raised voice.

I swear I didn't mean to scream, but it was necessary.

"Your mother was okay with it, Babara" 

Tears bolted out of my eyes. "No! She wasn't okay with it. Y'all thought she was fine with it but she wasn't. Do you know how I know? That's because I was the one at the receiving end of her brokenness. She drank herself to death's door every night after we left here. For months, my mother didn't know how I survived. You also want to know why sh