we return, the house is silent. I find April curled up on our bed, hugging my pillow, fast asleep. Her tiny fists are clutched around clouds of tissue. Oh, baby. Our love is both a blessing and a curse. The curse, falling in love with an older man, a sick one to boot. If she wouldn’t have grown up with a fanatically religious father, her life would have been so different. Yet, I can’t wish for it to be any other way; call me selfish, but I’m happy that April is in my life. I’m grateful she came into Kaden’s too. My first wife left Kaden and I when he was two. It destroyed me. I thought I would
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