Chapter 2

Penny did not struggle in his arms. It was as if she had lost her will to fight.

defiance was the tears that spilled

her. She had thought of ending her life several times to escape from the pain and misery, but each time, her daughter's face would surface in her mind. With her daughter as her sole anchor,

of this devil who

relentless misery

she would strive to work hard and stay single for the rest of her life. Her only purpose was to make up for her

times of her life was now back to haunt her. It was like rubbing salt in her wound. Upon his reappearance, all the poignant memories which had been

to God for a little salvation, earnestly begging the heavens to stop piling up on her

was unbearable to Nathan. He gently

stony-hearted creature like him was a complete stranger to tenderness, but he begged for the first time in

you as well, please give me

when he uttered 'our

a glint of hope as she slowly lifted her

have gone through over the years,” Nathan continued to plead in his soft voice, “I know that you loathe me too, but please give me a chance

from single-parent families are more prone to suffer from

me a chance,

she ruminated on his words. Queenie was growing up fast and getting more sensible by the

never be complete, let alone offer a sense of normalcy and

she saw the pitiful look on Queenie's

her tears as she had no answer

Queenie needs a

in Nathan's eyes only fueled

decide, but she finally agreed, “Alright, I'll give you a chance to

the chance because she needs a papa in her life. But let me give you a stern warning - do nothing that might upset

Queenie calls you papa does

Nathan nodded his

opportunity to reunite with Queenie because she wanted the young

lifetime for her to forgive him for the pain he had inflicted

spun an invisible web within her, creating a deadly mess of entangled knots. He knew that it

...

inside the elementary classroom of Golden Apple Kindergarten, the teacher was

was gloating

end of the rope was tied to the neck of

“Don't you know you're my dog, Queenie? Dogs are supposed to bark,

on her limbs like a puppy, her grubby face stained with chalk dust. She was a

face with

the rope around her neck, which left her

inaction, the fat boy pestered her again, “Queenie, I'm warning you, bark, or I'll get everyone to wallop you. You're

Queenie sobbed pitifully, “No, don't call me a

king of this place and when I say you're a b******, you'd better act like one. Now, do as I say and bark like a dog!” The fat boy

the kids laughed at what they saw, as if

Penny had just reached the entrance of

Penny into a state of

Queenie's neck and tossed it away as if it were a repulsive snake. “What happened to you, Queenie?” She asked worriedly, her

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