“What did you say?” his father asked, the look in his eyes the sternest he had ever seen him.

Daniel could not understand their reaction. They also hated Anya. They treated her badly, yet they were acting as though he was evil.

“We got divorced almost a week ago,” he declared, and his mother shook her head as she slowly sat back down. It was as though her action was a call to battle, as the storm descended upon him furiously.

“Who said you could do this without ...