Daddy, Chasing Mommy Back is On Us! novel Chapter 857

Jason frowned immediately. “What happened to your hand?”

“Nothing.” Mayaboy was too afraid to meet his gaze as she spoke.

“Show me!” He forcefully tugged on her hand before he gently rolled her sleeve up to reveal her arms. They were covered in scars that looked like they had been made by a whip!

“How did this happen?” Jason felt his heart thundering at the sight of the brutal scars. Some of them looked fresh as they were still bloody, while scabs had already formed over others. There were a number of scars that looked like they had been around for an even longer time, and the old and new wounds overlapped each other in a random, disorganized pattern.

She quickly pulled her hand away. “It’s nothing. My mother-in-law has a bad temper. She beat me after I accidentally dropped a bowl during dinnertime. That’s all.” The smile hadn’t left her face as she told Jason about the incident; she made it sound as if it was nothing more than a common matter.

Jason felt his heart aching for the girl before him. “Your mother-in-law beat you up so badly over a bowl?”

“Well, all married women have to deal with their in-laws’ tempers, right?” She continued to smile.

“How did things end up like this…” Jason couldn’t help but blame himself. “This wouldn’t have happened if I had brought you away back then.” He sank into a pit of guilt. If I had managed to run away with her in the past; if I had returned to look for her after I left this place; if… Well, there’s no use for wishful thinking now… He didn’t understand the culture in Mayaboy’s village, but he had hoped that her life would improve after she got married. All he knew back then was how poor her own family was, so he had assumed that her quality of life would’ve improved after she got married to the clan leader’s more affluent family, but he had no idea that she would turn out in the state that she was in right then.

The smile hadn’t left Mayaboy’s face even then. “I should really thank you for what you did then, townsman. I’m really thankful that you were willing to bring me along with you back then. Although we didn’t manage to leave in the end, just the fact that you were willing to bring me along already meant a lot to me. Some other guy would have just treated me like I was crazy.”