TARA Considering the duration of my pregnancy and Nadia's eight and a half years, I hadn't seen my mother in close to a decade, and I hadn't heard one word about her or anything relating to Attica pack except Adian. My father too, but from the memory of a loaded shotgun pointed at my head and the fury I'd seen in his eyes, I doubted if my father still wanted anything to do with me even after all this time. Back then, one of the reasons why I'd contemplated not keeping my baby-an unthinkable thing to me now- was the fact that my mom was constantly sick, and my father was barely making enough to take care of us and her medical needs, talk more of a kid. It started with muscle problems, before morphing into high blood pressure, and eventually, symptoms of something more dreadful

