I grabbed Lily before Daniel could touch her again. – yilux

She cried before she finished my name.

She told me Daniel had been bullied for a facial scar when he was a kid. She said he had begged for surgeries and hated mirrors for years. She said maybe, in his twisted way, he thought he was sparing Lily from that kind of pain.

I listened.

Then I told her this: children are not raw material for adults to remake.

She went quiet after that.