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‘Sounds like a fairly normal story so far’

Oh, that even tone Theto led, but so did a lot of people But then my father lost his job on the asse too ly, or so my mother tells me I was only four at the time, when he left’

‘Four? Do you re at her closely, but she couldn’t tell anything from his tone or his expression

‘Vaguely The s tobacco, the scratchiness of his shirt Sitting next to hihtness that had started in her throat and chest ‘It all feels like parts of an old dreaments, no more’

‘Yes’

So underneath the words, made her ask, ‘What about your mother? Do you remember her?’

‘Yes, of course She died when I was nine’ Cristiano spoke dis Laurel wonder ‘So what happened after your father left?’

Laurel shrugged ‘Myon in that part of Illinois, and of course she had randfather needed to work on the farrando and while she aitressing she met someone’

Her first ‘daddy’ Laurel had always hated how Elizabeth made her call the men she’d entertained her father…except for the ones eren’t interested in kids More than one boyfriend had never known about her at all Laurel had been very good about staying quiet, hiding in cupboards, pretending she didn’t exist

‘And that’s how it began? Elizabeth funding her lifestyle through a series of men?’