Chapter Thirteen
Fiona
1976 – Dallas, Texas – All-Boys Boarding School
It seemed like a punishment to me. Since being blessed with Coy’s birth, we hadn’t had another child. And Collin put the blame squarely on my shoulders. Now he was sending our only child—six-year-old Coy—away to boarding school. Even if he wouldn’t admit it, I knew he was doing it to punish me for what he thought were my failings.
Coy sat in the backseat of our car, his eyes wide as he looked out the window at the tall buildings in downtown Dallas. “This isn’t like home, Daddy.”
“It’s still a good place, son. You’ll really love it here. And you’ll have lots of boys your own age to play with. You don’t have anyone to play with at home,” Collin looked at me, “since you don’t have any brothers or sisters.”
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