C145 Loyalty and Chaos

He leaned ahead, his eyes blazing with fury. “Respect? For who, Helen? Your dad and mom left me with the duty of raising you, and this is the way you pay off me? By turning your lower back on the one person who’s been there for me.”

I was taken aback into silence for a moment, the phrases slicing deeper than I predicted. Uncle Tom had usually been a father determined to me, but now