The simple fact that she was conceding to one of his requests made Jake happier. He smiled a small smile and nodded his approval of her concession. "Thank you. I appreciate the effort. There's much to learn about who you are now. As to your family... I see how you love them enough to not want to uproot them from their lives, but I also notice that it is you here as a slave and not any of them. It seems that some of them had no problem allowing you take your father's place."
Jake knew that that comment might piss her off... No. That it likely would piss her off, but it was the truth. Any one of her brothers could have taken her father's place, instead they allowed their sister to go and be sold into slavery. There were many sick bastards out there that would force themselves upon a girl, let alone one as pretty as Abbey. It showed him her family's true colors and he wasn't the biggest fan of them at the moment. In his mind, sisters should be protected from the evils of the world as best they could be.