Selina finally realized why Joe's words had sounded so familiar.
This was classic behavior from a spineless mama's boy.
The kind of man who tells his wife: "My mother raised me, it wasn't easy for her. You should treat her well."
When there's tension between his mother and his wife, he never steps up—just smooths things over, always expecting the wife to back down.
That kind of man is suffocating enough in an average household. In a powerful family? It's a disaster.
Selina couldn't understand why her mother ever chose to be with someone like Joe. As far as she could see, Joe was not the kind of man a woman should trust with her future.
Whatever Grandma Morris said became law. Right or wrong didn't matter—everyone had to follow her will.
Otherwise? You'd be labeled "unfilial."
But why?
Grandma Morris was the one who raised Joe. If anyone owed her anything, it was him. What did that have to do with his partner? Or with the daughter he abandoned?
