Assurance.

CLAIRE

As I sat on the floor of the cave, my hands went to my eyes repeatedly to clean my eyes, and I had to sniff in to control the tears that were falling so rapidly. I didn't bother to wait for the verbal words that would tell me that my presence was not needed at the house, no. I figured that it would even be worse if Becky came out of her room and saw me in the house. The woman would never stop until I was humiliated until the end. So, to avoid that, I opened the main door and made my way out of the place.

How could a father be so callous to his only daughter?

Even if he was angry with me until death, he should have at least smiled at me a little to show that he appreciated the fact that I came home to check on him. Not just home, I had even gone as far as forgetting how he turned me out of his house just to satisfy his wife and stepdaughter. And to crown it all, he just blatantly showed me that even if I had been dead all these months, he didn't care about any of that. Not even