Chapter 2393

When Jack got drunk and beat his family, Maureen would throw herself over Gus, shielding him with her own body, even when she was bruised and bleeding. As he grew older, he began to realize his mother was unlike the other women in the village. She could read, do math, and even write in a foreign language. The only thing was that she had no family. Gus had once asked Jack about the reason why Maureen didn't have a family. He brushed it off, saying she was mentally unstable and wandered around on her own, until he took her in one day. Apparently, that was why she had no family. Young Gus never doubted his father's words at that time. He even believed that if Jack wasn't abusive and alcoholic, he might've been a decent man. However, the teacher, locked up in the village, once told him that Maureen wasn't taken in—she was trafficked, just like the teacher had been. Perhaps Maureen wasn't born like this. Maybe she had just been broken into it. Gus was only ten when he learned the tr