Defending My Daughter
Hugging Tina and holding me, he turned around resolutely, not sparing his mother another glance.
Behind him came Rachel's furious roar. "Rick! Stop right there! You're abandoning your home for this woman and her dirty spawn?!"
Rick didn't look back. He said resolutely, "My home is wherever they are."
We finally walked out of that suffocating cage.
Rick took us to a riverside apartment where he had set up a castle-like children's room.
After Tina fell asleep, he hugged me from behind, buried his face in my neck, and said in a hoarse voice, "Mandy, there's no Rivers family here, only us. I've cut off everything you're afraid of. Will you give me another chance and marry me?"