MY TABOO STEP DADDY
More whispered ‘Pakhan’ like I'm royalty instead of a captive who spread his legs and somehow ended up with a ring on his finger.
The compound looks different in daylight. Less like a fortress, more like a graveyard. Sparse brown dirt stretches endlessly. No trees except for a cluster of shrubs near the west fence where Damon sits, throwing stones at nothing.
The pyres crackle behind me. I don't look back.
Yosef is in medical, someone said. Leg shattered. Face unrecognizable. Tristan beat him so badly his own mother wouldn't know him.
He killed Martha, Tristan had said, fist dripping red. He deserves worse.