Chapter 10

"Steve, save me! Please save me!" Isabel screamed again, finally snapping Steve out of it. Her shrill cries also drew Dorothy over. When Dorothy saw me pinning Isabel to the wall and slapping her mercilessly, she ran over and yelled at me. "You bad woman! Let go of Mommy, you evil lady!" She kept repeating those words as she cried and shouted. By then, I had completely lost my reason. I didn't bother holding back against Dorothy, the culprit who had made this whole mess. I shoved her aside and kept hitting Isabel. Even when Isabel's face was swollen beyond recognition with blood smeared at the corner of her mouth, it still couldn't ease the hatred tearing through my chest. What had my child ever done wrong that her ashes ended up scattered on the ground so carelessly? Shoved to the ground, Dorothy immediately burst into loud sobs. Just then, a powerful force spun me around. The next second, a sharp slap landed across my face. I stared in shock at the man standing before me wit