Chapter 252

I didn’t know how to respond. What could I say? That I didn’t choose my father? That I was just as trapped in this fate as he was? There were no words that would change anything. There was no argument that could stop him.

His eyes met mine again, and I saw something darker there, something more unsettling than anything else he had said. A twisted bitterness, a resentment that had festered for so l