Tabby didn't know what had come over her, one minute she was standing there listening to Asher scream at her and the next she'd drawn her hand back and slapped him as hard as she could before shouting back at him "I HAD TO LEAVE! LIVING WITH YOUR MUM WAS KILLING ME!"
"You are the only reason I stayed in that damn house as long as I did. If it hadn't been for you, I'd have left when I was 16. And I thought I was doing what was best for you by not calling you. I saw how she treated you when I was there because of me, because you cared about me. I didn't want to be the reason for her mistreating you anymore," she added, guilt flooding her over the fact that she'd hit her brother. She'd never hit anyone like that.