Kindle Notes & Highlights
“I don’t like this new version of you,” Meredith mutters flatly from the table. Inches from me, still leaning against the counter, Patrick replies. “You mean the grown man with self-respect?” Shifting slightly, his hip bumps into me, causing me to clang the skillet onto the range.
Since Patrick began conversing with my father, Meredith has loathed me. I became Patrick’s responsibility, one he doesn’t take lightly. It rubbed Meredith wrong how easily I conformed to my father’s wishes. I am a child– it’s not a woman’s issue on whether or not I listen to my father. I’m not listening to Patrick because he’s a man, but because he treats me with kindness and respect. In return, I respect Patrick and the home I’m currently staying in.
“They deserve respect. Resolutely. But they also earned punishment, which is another matter entirely.”
“It was a benediction,” I gasp out, voice thready as my body wigs out on me after not feeling that in a few weeks shy of four years. “Not a curse.”
