LEIGH
My stomach growled in annoyance and I sighed. I hadn't eaten since yesterday and I hadn't slept either.
Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Lol then I heard Sola's voice. My daughter died because of you.
That woman stood in front of me with her perfect face and her perfect title and her perfect f*****g life and told me my daughter was dead — and something in the back of my skull didn't just crack.
It detonated into rage.
Pure….white-hot and suffocating.
I wanted to tear her apart with my bare hands. I wanted to wrap my fingers around her throat and squeeze until her eyes understood exactly what she had taken from me. I wanted to destroy her the way she had destroyed every single year I spent running, hiding, sacrificing —
All of it.
Every night I told Lola we were safe now, ba
