Bared To You
Edwina
Our livelihood was gone. Just like that—burnt to ashes in the fire that consumed the only thing that had ever stood between us and poverty. And now… my dad, the strongest man I knew, was lying in a hospital bed, heart failing him when we needed his strength the most.
The sky hadn’t just fallen. It had crashed, violently, and crushed everything we had beneath it—dreams, pride, security. All gone.
I sat still, hands clenched in my lap, my heart rattling in my chest like loose change. Who could I even blame for this? God? The devil? Or was it just plain old bad luck, cruel and random as it always was?