Worth Dying for
“Barrett?” Leslie Anne glared at the therapist. “I thought you were the wise one, the great psychiatrist who helped my mother recover from being raped and savagely beaten by my father, and yet you don’t seem to have any words of wisdom for me.”
She hated the way the doctor looked at her, with such pity in his eyes. What was he thinking—that Leslie Anne Westbrook would make a fine case study, perhaps be the ideal subject for a book on inherited deviant behavior?
“Do you really think of Eddie Jay ...Nealy as your father?” Dr. Barrett asked.
Leslie Anne shrugged.
The truth of the matter was that she didn’t think of her mother’s rapist as her father. But she also didn’t think of some fictitious guy named John Allen as her father, either. Even though she’d been curious about her paternity for years and had suspected her mother and grandfather were lying to her about John Allen, she had clung to the childish hope that whoever her father was, he and her mother had loved each other.MoreLess
She hated the way the doctor looked at her, with such pity in his eyes. What was he thinking—that Leslie Anne Westbrook would make a fine case study, perhaps be the ideal subject for a book on inherited deviant behavior?
“Do you really think of Eddie Jay ...Nealy as your father?” Dr. Barrett asked.
Leslie Anne shrugged.
The truth of the matter was that she didn’t think of her mother’s rapist as her father. But she also didn’t think of some fictitious guy named John Allen as her father, either. Even though she’d been curious about her paternity for years and had suspected her mother and grandfather were lying to her about John Allen, she had clung to the childish hope that whoever her father was, he and her mother had loved each other.MoreLess
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