Nova
Her is every injury, every burn, broken bone, strangulation mark, shoe print on her ribs, broken nose, internal bleeding that Nova has been here with in the last two years.
I started at the file. The size of it alone, stole the breath from my lungs. “It also records the malnutrition she suffers from and how she so no signs of any kind of mental instability.”. I felt like someone had punched me in the gut, I literally had to double over, my reaction to that was so physical.
I looked at my dad and saw the same wide eyed distress that I was feeling, reflected back at me.
“I’m sorry doctor but I can’t believe this was happening and no one noticed” my dad said in some kind of denial.