A Father's Vengeance

my arms, his breaths shallow and ragged. I' d torn my shirt, soaking pieces in the small basin o

ache. I spent hours talking to Caleb, singing the stupid songs I used to w

r, my voice a cracked ruin. "We'll go to

oo weak

ed open. Hope, a stupid, stubborn thing, flared in my chest.

e doorway, a smirk on his arrogant face. He looked at

a deliberate step into the cellar. The fresh a

voice barely audible. "Call an

zier, the embers still glowing faintly.

hink this is about some 'negative ene

hung in th

ng every word. "She was destroyed when he chose my older sister. You? You were just

My entire marriage, a

d she sure as hell doesn't love your kid. Right now, she's on a private be

, so total and complet

looked at it, then at me. "You know, I never liked you. Comi

It caught immediately, sending a fresh

he said, tur

omb. I held my son and wept, the smoke