Chapter 3: Come to MeMatthew
It was Halloween, and what an all-around shitty day.
Matthew Crist sat at the front of the visitation room. How ironic that Grandfather would be buried on the same day that monster had come into the world.
When Grandfather had brought Mama and Matthew and his brother and sisters home, he’d told them they would no longer be Smalls. It wasn’t a problem for Mama—she just married someone else—but the courts had to be involved for him and Luke, Sarah and Bethany.
And the man who was his father hadn’t cared enough to challenge it. Matthew had overheard Grandfather telling his uncles after he’d come back from the courthouse, because he was too good a man to let his grandchildren know what a bastard their father was.
That was when Matthew turned his back on Benjam
