Chapter 35
- “I’m giving you the chance to gracefully exit the stage on your own. Since you won’t take it… don’t blame me for forgetting we share blood.”
- And the silence that followed thick, suffocating, stitched together by fear and shame and the Carter Family’s precious reputation.
- I looked up at him slowly, my voice barely a breath. “You still believe we have something as convenient as a father-daughter relationship?”