It had been three years since I last saw Dad.
He didn’t say goodbye when he left. Not to me, nor to Mom’s hanging f*****g corpse in our house. Just picked up a couple things from his dresser and walked out of the house with his black eyes swollen shut and a sobbing daughter running after him.
I stuffed my hands into his jacket and walked through the pack, away from Jain’s Bakery. After finding out what Mom did to herself, Jain had been the only person to talk to me despite Alpha Maddox’s orders to stay away from me. She even offered me a place to stay and a job.
It’s not like I could get one anywhere else.
Everyone else, even my classmates and teachers, scowled at me.
Tears welled up in my eyes. Today was especially hard. Three years ago today was the day that everything changed, the
