Chapter 20: Chapter 20: An Eye For an Eye

Royce

I gave Carrigan a few days to be alone. What happened at my parent’s house obviously had been my fault for not preparing her or, even worse, bringing her. I felt she assumed I wanted to torture her, but it was the opposite. She made everything better. I wanted that feeling to be escalated with my parents, but they treated her like trash.

I had screamed at them for a long time after Carrigan had run out crying. I explained to them that they already lost one of their children and they were on the path to losing the other. I didn’t care what Lou or Nico said. The more I tried to bring myself into their mindsets, the angrier I got.

There was no reason for treating Carrigan that way. It was all out of spite and hate that was masking their hearts. Kit’s death turned them stone cold, something I’d never understood because they wouldn’t talk to me. I was left out in the rain on the day when they heard their daughter was gone.