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Daniel’s gaze slips to mine, looking for confirmation. I hesitate for

a moment, looking between father and son, and then give a little

shrug, deciding not to push it. Kent has made his point – I need to do what he says – but if he was really going to hurt me, he’d have done it by now.

“See?” Kent says, looking at his son. “She’s fine.”

With that, Kent strides from the room, brushing past his son and

not giving me another look. Confused, Daniel looks after him, and

then turns to me.

“Am I crazy?” He asks. “Or did I hear you scream?”

I sign and sink onto the bed. “You’re not crazy,” I say. “I did.”

“But you’re okay?”

I nod as he sits down next to me, concern all over his face. I have

admit that I am a little surprised by it

least a little, that I’m just

to know that he cares about me

that I’m in

rule,” I say, twisting

at him. Daniel groans, starting

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laugh. “He does not like that. What

trying to decide where to start. I

of your dad’s homemade porn in the basement doesn’t seem like quite the auspicious beginning, so I jump

how much

pale. “I’m sorry, Fay,” he says softly. “Some of the stuff that goes on down there…is…did anyone get hurt?”

nod a little and he puts a hand on my

often?”

a kid and then…I never went down again. Honestly, I think my dad was a little disappointed in me. He doesn’t want

Daniel, who is sensitive. After a beat,

inherit this family, its… business…if you can’t

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answer. Honestly, sometimes it feels like he’s fighting so hard to

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