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"I don’t think he’s lying, honey Hendrix doesn’t say things unless he knows"

"It can’t be true, Jess," I whisper, feeling ht not be how you think it is Maybe your dad isn’t so bad"

"He was going to sell et much worse"

"Maybe he doesn’t sell the, but you can’t take away the reality of this situation"

"I know, honey…"

"I just don’t want to see it, even if he is right My dad was everything to me, and even after he left e shattered, I don’t want to see him the way Hendrix has described hi to knohat is real and what isn’t"

"I know," I whisper "I just feel nuht now This is all too much to take in My life has never been easy, but I dealt with it, and II believed in has been stoaze to mine, and nods "I know honey"

"I’ herself"

A tear slides down le to keep my composure "I love him, Jess"

"I know you do, baby"

"I don’t knohat to do…"

"I knohat you have to do," she , and take each day as it comes"

If only it were that easy

Jack Ketch

A warm hard body slides into the bed besidemyself into it I’m hurt by what Hendrix toldI feel hirips the back ofhiht now seeer each time he lays his hands on me