Chapter 146. No One Will Help You

Maggie POV

One Week Later.

I’m beginning to get the hang of things on this ship. It’s obviously not the ideal place for me to live, but with Cookie being so nice to me every day, it’s much more bearable than Oaktree Manor.

There’s not a day that goes by where I don’t think of all the people I’ve lost in my life. My family is foremost, of course. I miss doing chores with my mother, and those quiet evenings when everything was finished around the farm and we’d sit down to sew. Before things went so bad with Assanan taking everything from us, she would get so excited whenever she found a new bolt of fabric in the market to make a new dress for me.

With Father, things were different. He was close to me in his own, quiet way. Even when he was a little angry, it always seemed to be about something he thought I shouldn’t