they didn’t just let it happen… they planned it…

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Richards looked down at her with undisguised contempt. “Why? What are we going to find, Adela?”

She looked up. Her eyes met mine, and for a fleeting second, I saw the woman I had spent my entire childhood trying to please—the mother who had always remained just out of reach, cold and distant. But there was no love in her eyes now. Only a pathetic, continue reading …