Dirty Little Secrets
When Paul would laugh at me, Dad’d tell him to be quiet, because I was a princess, and princesses don’t fight monsters.
If only those mom hugs could have lasted past age five, and those super-daddy monster slayed could still happen.
Now, in the dead of night, holding my own baby, I wished I could call for my daddy to kill the monsters under my bed.
Milka sniffed, her eyes drifting closed. I breathed a quiet sigh of relief.
Then she woke up. And screamed.
I muttered a very bad word.
An hour and a half later, I thought she was finally asleep. She hadn’t cried or moved for five minutes. Maybe I could put her down and finally get some sleep myself.
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