Damian’s pov Ruby called me last night crying. Not even last night- it was almost 4 am when she did. She was scared, she said that she had to wait for them to be asleep. Dad had taken her phone away. I was about to wake Bryan to go get her when she said, “Come get me tomorrow after school. He’ll be working the evening shift.” It was a hard night after that. To think of my sister being in that stressful situation. Knowing my father’s shift started at 5 pm, I knew that. Ruby would be with him until then…alone because my mother tended to give my father ‘his space’ as she called it, and my mind goes into chaos. I could not go back to sleep hearing the distress in my sister’s voice. From then, I started calculating the cost of living- on my phone, not the laptop he had bought me. I still ha