Chapter 14: Patrick's Past

Emma just smiled; Patrick seemed to have grown up in love. There were no complex social relationships in his family, his thoughts were so naively simple that he simply believed that loving children in this world was as natural as social norms. "You're right, perhaps there wouldn't be any mothers who don't love their children, after all, mothers who don't love their children wouldn't let them be born in the first place. But have you ever thought, why should one love someone who causes them pain?...