CHAPTER 68
I stare straight in front of me. Bright snowflakes in the headlights zoom toward us like racing stars. My mind is foggy from my little nap, my spirit reluctant to think about that chapter of my past.
Justin’s never asked me before, at least not for any details. But I knew it would end up like this. Knew if I came out to Seattle, it’s what we’d end up talking about.
It was Reginald who told me. Reginald who gave me the scant details that even now leave gaping holes in the narrative. I’ve pieced together his side of it and merged it with what Grandma Lucy and my mother later said, but even now there are so many things I haven’t figured out.
What did Chris do after I left home? After he hit me for the first time?
While I was sitting in Grandma Lucy’s greenhouse, where was my h
