“You were in survival mode, Brooke. You did what you did to survive. You cleaned your mama’s house, and you looked after them children like they was your own ’cause she was too high to be bothered herself. She used you, honey, because she could. Now that you got rid of her means of living, she’s got a whole lot of responsibility that’s new to her. The manipulation she tries to pull on you, that selfishness, it was there all along child. You just had bigger things to worry about, and she never had to use it before.”
