Chapter Seventy-Nine

Saying goodbye to a loved one isn’t an easy thing to do…

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To think of the hell his mother had gone through in the hands of the brother in-law she had been forced to marry, but for the sake of her son, decided to endure the abuse, while crying herself to sleep every night, hoping the love of her life would one day come back from war and claim her, left Tom feeling so bruised and worthless.

He kept thinking of how he had cursed his mother several times believing she was a selfish mother who did not care about her son.

He never knew until now that rather than hate him, his mother had loved him so much she had been protecting him by not giving him too much attention, knowing that would only drive her husband into jealous rage and he might take it out on the innocent Tom.

No wonder his mother had always been more caring and attentive whe