Good Girl Gone Bad
“His mom...she didn't stop it?”
Tears pricked my eyes, unbidden. I wiped them away angrily, but the image lingered, a boy trapped in a nightmare of betrayal and pain.
Knight shook his head, a bitter laugh escaping. “His mom was worse in her own way. She was a dirty animal. When his dad passed out drunk, she'd crawl into bed with him, not for comfort, but she'd do things, in ways no mother should touch her child. And she'd planned to take sexual pictures of him, sell them and later dump him in an orphanage. That's when he learned the truth. That survival means killing, scheming, fighting your way out of the darkness. He grew up in it, Saoirse.”