"Where's daddy?" Tracy asked, sucking her thumb. I leaned down took her thumb out of her mouth. "Away."
"Is he gonna come back?"
"He has to come back. To face fate."
"What does that mean?"
"It means you'll see daddy soon enough. You'll see him."
Because I was going to haunt him down if I had to. For revenge. For Marlon, the boy I thought I never loved until he was gone and then Grayson came along, more safer and less dangerous.
For Marlon, the one I thought I could forget. His dark skin brushed against mine on dark evenings under the stars when we thought no one was watching.
I was going to find my father and I was going to testify against Bill and Keith and I was going to get justice.
But that was just opening up another book, and closing this one.
THE END
