There was another helpless sigh before Joanne continued.
"The Morton family is a noble family in Chicago. It's a scandal for them that the young daughter of the master had been abducted and didn't return for so many years. They didn't want the outsiders to know that I've married an unknown man from an unknown family for the family's reputation. So, your grandfather decided to draw a veil over the matter and clean up my traces in LA completely. That's why they separated us."
She stopped here and couldn't hold back her tears any longer and wept again.
In order to protect his daughter, and more importantly, to protect the family's reputation, the master of the family, Joanne's father, separated his daughter from her husband and her own daughter...
Savannah gasped and squeezed the napkin in her hand. She never thought her mother had experienced so much.