"You left us when we needed you most. You didn't just walk away from me, you abandoned us for your god knows what reasons. You don't get to come back and pretend you were ever a mother." His voice cracked slightly at the end, betraying the storm behind his cold facade.
"I had no choice!" she cried, reaching out. "You think I wanted to leave? I was protecting you...."
"Protecting us? From who? From you?" he snapped, slapping her hand away. "Don't lie to yourself, and don't insult me by lying to me. If you were protecting us, where were you when we cried ourselves to sleep? When he," Lu Ting Zhou caught himself, fists clenched tightly.
Song Yaya's lip quivered. "I couldn't come back. They would have,"
"Save it!" he barked. "All these years, and you never once tried to send a message, a signal, anything. Don't act like the victim now. You only showed up when things started turning better for us, and you hadn't expected it to be, so you came back because you needed something."
