The Breaking Point

At Goldriver Estate, after Cleo tore up the psychological evaluation report, she lay in bed, tossing and turning, unable to sleep.

She couldn't help but think about her mom. She'd only met her once, and the woman had only ever spoken a single sentence to her.

Cleo thought, 'I never felt any motherly love—heck, not even fatherly love. All I remember is being dumped in a pigsty, looking after my lit