“ Is that what you learned back from the prison? How to be disrespectful to your parents?” Sonia yelled.

Ariel scoffed. She looked from Mantis to her mother. “ What do you expect me to learn from there?”

“ To have turned a new leaf, to be respectful and good, to have change..”

“ I did!” Ariel yelled, glaring murderously at her mother. “ Can't you see? The place you sent me to changed me.”

“ Do not talk to my wife like that.” Hort finally intervened.

Ariel ...