Ruby Hashira a 19 year old born with a condition that made her look small answered the door and saw the man stare at her and ask where her parents were “No they’re not cause I’m an adult and I live on my own.” She told him as if this wasn’t the first time she was mistaken for a child
Not gonna lie, the biggest reason why Lilly is such a trigger-point for me is because she literally behaves like my own mother did. Everything was about how she appeared as a mother, not how much she was destroying my entire self in service of her true goal. It took me years of therapy to unpack her shenanigans, and I'm 52 now, and still not done with that work. I may well be dead before I finally find the true self I was supposed to become under any normal circumstances.
So I assure you, this is not a critique on your writing - hell, the simple fact that your writing is this good, especially your character-building, is the reason I'm feeling these things. But I hate that fucking cowardly bitch right now. And if I was Paul, when I got home, I'd take that diaper off, put on proper clothes, pack my shit, and walk the fuck out. And I'd have my dad on the phone while I did it, telling him very simply that he better put a leash on that bitch if he ever wants to see me again.
Yeah you got me there, I will say if you thought she's a bitch here Chapter 41 won't do much to change that 😉.
That said in a perfect world Martina also will eventually carry baggage. My world has no true white "knights" nor do all the villains dress in black, what a awful cliche or a lame rhyme from a 90s after school special.
I could tell how excited you were writing and publishing that chapter by the number of obvious typos in the part after Kim got off the phone.
Also, I now hate Lilly again for what she just did, putting Kim on speakerphone without even telling Paul in advance that she was doing it. Just so she'd have "backup" when he inevitably fought back, not even against being put in Kim's care, but just taking something she just gave back to him - Martina's presence - away.
Fuck that bitch. For real.
I plan to have that kind of talk with one of my people if they ever ask me about it. Like I could either hold it indefinitely, pee myself, or have tons more peace of mind in a diaper.