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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.

mother?" I ask, not sure if I

Hated that I'd come into her life and ruined it. So did he, but he found a way to

kid's fault. They don't ask to be born," I

"She

that she was such a waste of a person. She couldn't get out even

the sofa and glance out on the

"Where is she now?"

know. I assume her body gave up

pull Winona onto my lap.

kids, I can't let them go back

find us? He didn't for all those years. Now, here he is. It's not a coincidence," she says, her voice

kids aren't lying or pretending. They don't have an agenda.

the right to privacy with real estate and staff. I'm not sure how he found you, but I'm damn well going to find out," I say, my

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that your mother knew he was still alive. When she went on vacation last

but I also can't stay in denial. This is Abby's life, Winona's life, and if I

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

back there. I don't care if I have

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