𝐁𝐈𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐁𝐈𝐓𝐄
Thea Quarts was never loved correctly. Not by her family, nor her lovers. She'd always wore a mask to cover up her families brutal truth, causing her to be unknown to who she truly was as a person. But when she meets a quirky p...
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CHAPTER ONE AND THE WORLD WENT QUIET
In the year: 1939
A DISGRACE. That is what Ethel Quarts had been calling her daughter, Thea, for the last nine months of the unwanted pregnancy. Thea was beginning to think it was her actual name.
While Ethel continued to braid up her hair, Thea sat on the edge of her elegant-styled bed, her feet nuzzled comfortably into fluffy slippers. Her gaze fell to an impregnated belly, and her eyes softened.
"I believe it will be a boy." Thea couldn't help but smile at the thought of her child cradled in her arms.
"What makes you say that?" Ethel questioned with the underlying tone of frustration in her voice, "You have no reason to think anything of this baby...no one will know of this."
"Mother I—" Thea hisses when she feels her mother accidentally pinch her skin. After a few moments of silence, Thea speaks again, "I never meant for this to happen."
"You never meant to be a whore, huh?" Ethel's lips press together into a faint frown. "You never meant to go against your religion and sleep with a man before you have married?"
Of course, that is what her mother was most upset about. Being the wealthy Christian family of Chattanooga, Tennessee, meant being the perfect Christian and the moment you make a mistake is the moment you go against god.
"You seem excited for this child that was never meant to be, why are you happy to carry a sin?" Ethel was now standing in front of her daughter in her nightgown, arms crossed and her black hair in a bun.
Thea was hurt by her mother's words, "How dare you call your grandchild a sin?"
"That is no grandchild of mine." Ethel shakes her head, "And that is no child of yours...what happened to you? You were meant to be the tamed child, Harper and Ava were the only two meant to give me problems."
Becoming slightly snarky, Thea mumbles, "I suppose this was the only way I could get your attention."
"Excuse me?" Ethel squints, waiting for Thea to repeat her words.
Thea only flutters her lashes, "It's nothing."
Thea didn't know what else to say, she didn't want to sound bratty or sound like someone looking for attention but the truth is—she was looking for that attention.
Thea tried not to be angry with her mother. She was just a widow doing her best in a bad situation.
With Ava suffering from such a rollercoaster of emotions every day and Harper's major anxiety problems, it was easy to forget about Thea.
