I spent the next two days training with Dad and Thayer, desperately trying to become stronger in order to end my abuser’s life once and for all. I refused to think of his name anymore and cursed myself for ever calling him Dad before.
Now, I stood in my bedroom, where Calder lay, with my mates and my father, about to embark on the scariest f*****g thing in my entire life—facing the man who had pimped me out and used me for my power.
“As much as I wish to travel and fight alongside you, I must stay here,” Dad said, cupping my face in his large, cold hands and forcing me to stare up at him. His eyes glimmered under the sunlight that flooded in through the back windows. “You will thrive, my daughter.”
While I had only just met him a couple nights ago, I couldn’t wait to return from this wa
