Chapter 068 – The Daughter I Raised
Chapter 68 - Chapter 068 – The Daughter I Raised
Elaine said Martin frightened her.
She said Peter was useless.
She said she felt responsible for keeping the family from exploding.
I listened.
Then I said, “You sound like me.”
She stared.
I continued.
“I spent years smoothing your father’s temper, then Martin’s, then yours. I called it peace. It was training.”
Elaine began crying.
“I don’t want to be like that.”
“Then stop using fear as a reason to harm people who trusted you.”
That sentence cost me.
It also freed me.
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For the first time, I saw Elaine not only as the daughter who betrayed me.
I saw the woman she might become if consequence taught what comfort never had.
