My Best Friend Married My Father——Then On My Birthday, She Gave Me a Black Box and Told Me to Open It Alone

stepping in to take control of his assets was to become his wife. I begged Lydia to marry him after I was gone. I asked her to be the villain so you could be free. Forgive her. Forgive me.

A year of rage—the kind of fire that had sustained me, defined me—collapsed into ash. I didn’t think. I didn’t pack. I simply grabbed my keys and drove through the continue reading …