Sun Mote Copse Let this moment be the first chapter: where you decide to stay

Bad enough, eh? She frowned, stung by her daughter's words. Nellie had never been this selfish- she shuold have known that Niamh would have understood...Regardless of whether or not that was the truth, she still felt slighted by her daughter's choice, and the fact that she had knowningly allowed her family members to suffer- evn more after having just lost the patriarch of the family. She would try not to hold a grudge, but her daughter's words stung so much that she couldn't help but feel as though she needed some time to herself to digest who exactly it was that her daughter had become. 

Bronco flattened her, and Niamh had stepped back to avoid the collision, and found her mood lifting slightly. Still, she wondered if Bronco might ask the same questions- but fortunately, he seemed too enthusiastic to care.