"And say what?" Jo demanded quietly despite the heat in her words. This conversation wasn't one they ought to be having with Ilona present (or at all) and Jo refused to shout since he had forced her into it. "How terribly sorry I am? How forcing her into this life was perhaps the cruelest act I could have committed as a mother? How truthfully your sister spoke when I saw her last? Where would you prefer I start?"
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