When Your Child Becomes Your Killer

iumphant energy she' d had on acceptance day completely gone. The fight she' d been

le I was packing my lunch for m

ney," she annou

ot looking up from the

n Florida for the summer.

ed against her deadbeat father, Ryan, the charming flake who hadn't paid a dime

hrugged. "Okay. Ask

unded. "What? He doesn't ha

his daughter to visit for the summer, he can pay for the tick

puttered, her voice rising. "

on the table, Stella. A vacation to see the father

he phone later, her voice sweet and pleading with Ryan

he missed her, how he'd love for her to come down, but... the business was slow, the

ew wife. There they were: Ryan, his new wife, and their two kids, all smiles on a Disney cruise, Mi

screaming match we' d ever had. Her idealized father, the "cool dad" who "understood" her, had been