Chapter 17

Candice couldn't stop crying, feeling incredibly disappointed in her daughter. Tara snapped impatiently, yelled a few words, and opened the door. However, she immediately froze in place. "Peter, when did you get here?" Peter lowered his head, and a dark, unreadable look appeared on his face. When he finally looked up, the woman before him, whom he'd once shared hardship and loyalty with, felt like a stranger he'd never truly known. When he was two years old, his nanny had kidnapped and sold him off. His adoptive parents treated him coldly, and by the time he graduated from middle school, he ran away from home. As he was drifting through small-town gangs, he met Tara, who had stayed in the countryside. One was a boy whose parents might as well have been dead, while the other was a girl from a broken family no one cared about. Peter often stepped in to protect her from bullies, and they formed a bond over time. One day, he got stabbed during a gang fight and was beaten so badly