“Joy, how are you any different from the people who used to bully Brendan at the orphanage?” Joy’s furious roar made it impossible for me to keep holding back. “Brendan has flaws, but he still deserves your respect. Back then, you did everything you could to bring him out of the orphanage and keep him by your side—wasn’t that because you didn’t want him to be bullied?”

The people who hurt him were gone now.

And Joy had become the one hurting ...