Hunting for Midnight
The cottage belonged to my mother's family and was offered to us out of pity after my father lost all we had to gambling, booze, and fast women.
Per my father, the story my relatives received wasn't the truth. A bundle of desperate lies, naturally of course, concocted by my bastard father, claiming an accidental fire burned our home in Scotland to the ground, as my mother explained when we showed up one cold, rainy night unannounced on my grandparent's doorstep. We were all filthy, our clothes tattered, starving, and without a single shilling among us.
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