How can a parent be so callous? So cruel? The man sitting in front of me brought a person into the world who is beautiful and kind and brave. A person who loves me. Who showed me how to swim in a cold, cold river. Who saved me from myself.
And he doesn’t even recognize the good he did.
Fine. If he won’t… then I will.
“He’s not going to give you what you want, you know.”
“Oh, I think he will,” Gregor says with a smug smile. “And you know why? Because I’m going to illustrate one of my lessons to him. I’m going to show him why I always preached strength over sentimentality. Why loving a woman is as useless a thing as a man can do.”
I can feel my fear unspooling inside my chest.
“He made himself weak by showing me how much he cared about your safety,” Gregor continues. “A child is one th
