C24 Chapter Twenty-Four: The Ultimatum

POV: Cily

How could a father do this to his daughter?

I could barely breathe, just standing there in the middle of my father's study, my hand clutching the phone he had shoved into mine. The words he spoke felt like poison, each syllable sinking deeper into my chest. My whole life had been a carefully spun web of lies and manipulation, but this, this was on a different scale