Abandoned by All I Took It All Back novel Chapter 457

“Of course not. What kind of parents would try to destroy their own child? There’s definitely something wrong with this picture.”

West didn’t mention that he already knew a little about Wendy's situation. He’d once overheard Nina and her friends talking, and that’s how he’d learned about Wendy’s parasitic family.

Just because he didn't pay attention didn't mean he was clueless.

Feeling his statement might have been too blunt, he quickly added, “You’re Nina’s friend. If you had a questionable character, the two of you would never have become friends.”

He wasn't just saying that; he meant it. The Holt siblings valued character above all else and would distance themselves from anyone they deemed untrustworthy. Even when they were dirt-poor in the countryside, they never resorted to stealing, no matter how hungry they were.

He wasn't sure why the memory surfaced, but he recalled a neighbor back in the village who owned a few geese. One of the geese laid an egg every day, and since only two families in the village raised geese, the eggs were a rare delicacy. The goose always laid its egg on an old grave mound—a grave that happened to belong to one of the Holts' ancestors. So, the neighbor had to pass their house every time she went to collect the egg.

Everyone in the Holt family knew about the goose, but none of them ever thought of taking the eggs. Except for Brooke Gable.

Some people are just born with a certain nature, while others develop it over time. Brooke, perhaps, was born restless.

Back then, Brooke was only five or six. She would follow the goose every day, and when it waddled up the mound, she’d hide nearby. As soon as the goose laid its egg, she’d scramble up, snatch the egg from the nest, and hide it under her clothes. She did this two or three times a week, taking the eggs into the mountains to eat them in secret. He never did figure out how she cooked them.

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