Chapter 14
Elijah
It wasn’t the first time my mom took in a stray—a man who came packing with the promise of money to feed her d**g addiction. Many had come and gone over the years, but Roland stayed, and even put a ring on Mom’s finger. My guess was the others had half a brain to realize that f*****g my mother wasn’t worth the s**t they had to put up with. Roland, on the other hand, was too much of an i***t to see it.
I sat at the top of the stairs watching him scratching his belly while laughing at some s**t show or other on the television. My mom was in her room, covering up the bruises and getting high. Ellie was busy rummaging through the kitchen cupboards in search of something to eat. But I already knew there was nothing. The fat pig ate it all, stuffing his face like a savage, n
