I had a life that I thought no longer included a certain redheaded, desperate girl with gigantic fucking issues. “You’re making me spend twelve months with that whack job?” “Mind your tongue,” he clipped with a hard look at me. “You’re a fucking idiot if you thought you could mess with her daughter and get away with it. Again, what were you bloody thinking, Jude?” “I just wanted her to…” I couldn’t even finish that sentence. To him, it would sound petty and childish and completely unnecessary. And everything I’d done to that girl was all those things.

