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dead girl walking chapter fourteen , departures
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BETRAYAL WAS PRESENTED in a variety of ways. There was lying, deceit, selfishness—and Sadie Cullen's personal favorite; broken promises.
They were something she had been familiar with from a young age. Her social worker had made her countless promises that she would do her best to find her a perfect home so she would not grow up thinking she was unwanted and worthy of nothing.
Broken promise number one.
Her mothers' had made her countless promises when they had been her foster parents that they would go through hell and back to get the adoption processed as successfully as possible so they could finally be a family. Because they had loved her that much.
Broken promise number two.
Carlisle Cullen had made her countless promises that her past fears could never find their way to hurt her ever again. That he was in her corner and would do anything and everything it took to assure her that she could stop running.
Three for three.
"That's bullshit!" she yelled once it had reached the final straw. It went without saying that her trust in her adoptive father had always been hanging by a very poor excuse of a thread, but enough was enough. At this point it felt intentional. The way he always managed to find a way to make decisions for her and leave her with no out.
The man frowned at her tone, knowing she would not make the conversation easy for either one of them. "It's what's best for us—"
He had barely gotten the words out before she exploded. "My ass, Carlisle!" she hissed.
The man had made countless excuses for his irrational behavior before—but this had been an all time low. To dare look her in her face and tell her the family had to skip town for reasons as ridiculous as he "Looked too old". There was a certain level of audacity he possessed that she just could not fathom where it stemmed from. Something that had never been a problem before had now suddenly classified as a top threat just mere moments after her brother's tantrum at her friend's birthday party? Come on. Sadie was smarter than that.
