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75 We'll Be Ready

75 We'll Be Ready

(Jayden)

"It's so complicated," she murmurs, her voice filled with pain.

"Tell me about what it was like, before you got to live with Anne," I urged gently.

Her shaking increases, her breath hitching with each sob.

"I got you. I think you need to talk about this, get it out. Otherwise, you are going to explode," I say in encouragement

"He was awful. I was his meal ticket. If he wanted stuff off people, I had to go too. Said they'd feel sorry for me. I had to go beg on the streets, and if I didn't get enough, I never got to eat anything," she confesses, her voice raw with emotion.

"Jesus, Winona, I'm so sorry you went through that," I say, my anger towards her father burning hotter.

"School saved me. I knew an education was my only way out, and we had a school breakfast program. I got to eat there," she continues, her voice a little stronger now.

ask, not sure if I

it. So did he, but he found a way to benefit from the misfortune of being lumbered with a

I say, feeling a

"She

fed her. He always said it was my fault that she was such a waste of a person. She couldn't get out even if she'd wanted

take her to the sofa and glance out on the deck. The kids are still munching

"Where is she now?"

I assume

lap. I want her

do literally anything to get money. This is why I'm so spooked by him turning up. Those kids, I can't let them go back there," she says, her voice filled with determination. "We'll

Now, here he is. It's not

saying. These kids aren't lying or pretending. They don't have an agenda. This man is dangerous, and he's turned up here now. Even with everything on the news, actually

and staff. I'm not sure how he found you, but I'm damn well going to find out," I say, my voice filled

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on vacation last time, she

to hear this about Mother, but I also can't stay in denial. This is Abby's life, Winona's life, and if I know

as Bobby is now. I hate to think how he'll end up if he goes

back there. I don't care if I have to take care of them myself," I

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