Haley
Who used their daughter as a form of collateral?
Dad didn’t use me. I’m not collateral. I’m not a thing. He
loves me. He did this for us, otherwise we would have nothing
left. Everything he worked for, it would all be gone.
Robert had explained everything to Haley two nights ago. It
left her one day to pack her things, go to the college and
inquire about switching to online classes, which was
impossible to do considering they were summer classes, and
pull herself the heck together. She wouldn’t let herself fall
apart over this. She was going to keep her head up and do
what she had to do. Her dad was a fighter and so was she.
Was he fighting when he double crossed that woman? Was
he fighting when she took her revenge by using me as
collateral for this loan?
Haley shoved those thoughts to the back of her mind. She
couldn’t make her stomach stop quaking or her mind stop
churning, but she wasn’t going to let it go there. That path just
led to rabbit hole after rabbit hole after rabbit hole, and she
had no plans on falling down any of them.
She drove her little sporty black car, her high school
graduation present, up a long, winding driveway. No one in
New York had long, winding driveways, but this lady did. The
lady her dad called a monster and a vampire, then tried to
soften the blow when he realized what that meant for her.
She’d be lying if she said she wasn’t scared. But she was
determined not to show it.
She marvelled at the view from the driveway. Okay, so
Larchmont wasn’t exactly New York City. In fact, it was a
suburb and almost an hour from the outskirts of the city, which