Benny wished he was happy to see her cry. But he wasn't. At the moment , nothing could soothe the anger and he could almost taste the bile rise in his throat.

"You don't know! You could never know! You never been in my shoes. You don't know what I've been through and what I had to do just to be able to live to see myself grow up. You think me grabbing you to have a private conversation, to check to make sure you were ok and safe was awful? Because I'd been around terrible people once  and tried to be compassionate? You don't know what bad is. If you did you would never venture outside your house again. So don't you go telling me you know! "

He was so angry every word had his voice raise until he was nearly shouting in her face. He had even walked up to her and poked her in the shoulder.