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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

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

to be born," I say, feeling a surge of protectiveness for Winona

"She

so bombed out on drugs and alcohol that he fed her. He always said it was my fault that she was such a waste of

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

"Where is she now?"

assume

my lap.

talking. "He will do literally anything to get money. This is why I'm so spooked by him turning up. Those kids, I can't

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

time. She's right. I have to listen to what she's 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

lot for the right to privacy with real estate and staff. I'm not sure how he found you, but I'm damn well

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went on vacation last time, she went snooping about where

life, and if I know anything right now, I know I love her

got out at about the same age as Bobby is now. I hate to think how he'll end up if he goes back to him," she says, her voice filled with

I

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