What Daddy Left Behind
"You are safe from that monster. We are going to fix this terrible mess he forced you into. We will get your life back on track."
I closed my eyes, leaning my forehead against the cool glass of the window.
I didn't say a single word for the entire two-hour drive. I didn't cry. The tears had completely dried up, leaving behind a cold, barren wasteland where my soul used to be. I just watched the towering, glittering skyline of Manhattan gradually bleed into the sprawling, congested highways, and eventually, into the manicured, obscenely wealthy backroads of the Hamptons.
Uncle Robert, sitting in the front passenger seat, spent the entire journey on his cell phone, speaking in hushed, urgent t
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