The woman leaned down and tried to break her with one cruel sentence.
“She deserved better than you.”
For a moment, the little girl could barely speak. Tears filled her eyes, but she still looked back at her and answered with the only truth she had left.
“She got better. She got me to fight for her.”
She was crying, but she did not back down. Because this was not just a child being hurt.
It was a daughter refusing to let anyone shame the person she loved.