Wild Enough To Heal
"I heard you talk about honor at that press conference like it means something to you. I heard you stand in front of cameras and thank yourself for surviving something you apparently walked into with your eyes open."
"You don't understand what you're talking about."
"Then explain it. Explain how you're a coward who's been lying to everyone his whole life, including us."
He slams me into the wall, my skull cracking against the frame beside it, glass splitting somewhere near my ear.
"Don't you ever talk to me like that again."
"Victor, stop!" My mother's between us now, hands on his chest, physically pushing. "He's your son, stop this."
He steps back, chest heaving, and for the first time I se