“What did he do to her?” I asked.Nero paused, like he couldn’t believe he was getting into telling me what he was about to say. But I wasn’t backing out. I had seen the good, bad, and the ugly parts of Nero, and I loved him.He had also seen the good, bad, and ugly parts of me, and it didn’t stop us from accepting one another. His trauma as a result of someone’s actions would not make me see him as weak.To show him support and that he could trust me, I put my hand on top of his. He softened and looked at me with a lot of emotions swirling in his eyes. For the first time, I could read him like an open book.He stopped being guarded and hiding what he was feeling, and all I could see was pain.“He used to hit her all the time. He beat her until she passed out, and then he lied to us that she was away on a job while she was in the hospital. He hated her because he loved another woman and was forced to marry her.”“My father never stopped seeing the woman he was in love with when he mar
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