#Chapter 256: You Think You Have A Choice?

Looking at Mrs. Hayes as she makes vague threats against her sons, the men that I’ve come to think of as friends, my most immediate feeling is confusion. She should hate her husband. She should cherish the life she has brought into the world. Everything seems so absolutely irreconcilably ass-backwards. I do little to hide my bewilderment from my face. “I’ve surprised you,” she says and seems bemused. “Did you think me to be a helpless little woman with no ambition of my own?” She scoffs. “You, with such lofty ambitions all your own? You disappoint me.” I don’t ask how she knows about my dreams. At this point, nothing else she says will surprise me at all. She’s not against her husband. She’s right there beside him. She probably reads all the notes he keeps on me, all the invasive delving into my personal life that he’s made. She knows then, of my dreams of being a warrior. She likely also knows of the true nature of my relationship with her sons. She probably just wanted me