Chapter 150. Tragedy and Joy

Maggie POV

I’m in tears, and I can’t tell if it’s because of all I’ve been through or because I’ve just lied to the second person on this ship who has been nice to me. I’ve never been a liar. I pride myself on telling the truth, even when it seems like the hardest thing to do.

So, I don’t know why those words just came out of my mouth. I’m supposed to help this woman, but I don’t even tell her the truth when she asks about my family.

They didn’t cry when I was taken away, yet that’s what I just told Lyra. I’d also told her that they had explained things to me... well, that they’d at least told me I had to go with the men. But that’s not how it happened. They’d let those men come into our home and drag me away without so much as a word to me.

Mother didn’t even look at me when it happened, when I was driven away, an