Pierce never did. He never took charge or interest in anything I taught him. Pierce just did as I told him to, with a blank look on his face and dead eyes. Like every order he followed through killed him a bit more on the inside.
I wonder if this is how my father felt watching the life die inside me.
"Anthony, are you even listening?" Elaine said, snapping me out of my thoughts.
"No," I answered honestly. "What did you say?"
Elaine huffed and rolled her eyes.
"I said... He's going to hate us Anthony. We have to do something. Pierce barely loves me as it is, and he's the only person in the whole world that does. I don't want to have to go as far as my father did, but I will," she told me.
"It won't get that far," I promised her. "Pierce will listen to us. Besides, their situation is d
