Chapter 37: In the Kitchen
It takes everything I have to leave Dan spread out on the bed like that, stomach and c**k exposed, a bemused look in his eyes that tells me he knows just how difficult this is for me and he thinks it’s funny, damn him, because he knows I’m going to race right back. If I survive my dad. I’ve told him off plenty of times in my mind, I used to shout at him behind the closed door to my bedroom when I knew he couldn’t hear me, I talk a real good game but when it comes right down to it? I’m scared. Plain and simple, the man terrifies me, he always has. That’s part of the power he has over me, I think, the knowledge that he can just give me that mean-ass look of his and my arguments dry up like so much dust. He’s never raised a hand against me—in our family, my mom dol
