Chapter 17 Sophomore Year Sam was unhappy as she began her sophomore year of high school. She had tried to avoid it but she spent the last part of her summer break with the rotten bastard and was still in a foul mood because of it. She couldn’t stand staying with him and his new family and it usually took her several weeks to decompress after she stayed with him. He only returned her home the weekend before school started so she was still in a highly agitated condition the first day of school. Ms. Kean was no longer principal because she took a job at another school out of state, so John took that as his opportunity to exact his long-awaited revenge and it did not take him long to seek out Sam. When he found her during the first morning break he said, “Your protector, Ms. Kean, is no lo

