Chapter 56

• Chapter Fifty Six
• “Maria, please no.” Edna cried. She couldn’t take remembering all of it, and if she did she risked hating Miguel herself. She saw the pain in his eyes and his face stayed expressionless, quietly listening to Maria. If he also listened to more of it, it would most definitely kill him.
• Maria didn’t think it was enough. She wanted someone apart from herself, to blame for the hell she had lived in for years, and her father was fat enough for the roasting. She tried to pry out of Dave’s hold, but he wouldn’t let her go, so she turned to face Miguel. She wanted to show him more scars, yell, tell him how Ricky raped her when she was unconscious, and how she had to face the humiliation of giving herself to him, just to avoid getting beaten. She wanted to explain in gory details, how Ricky enjoyed torturing her when he carved her up, like some piece of wood, how he would beat and burn her just because he was bored. She wanted to tell him how it felt to be scared of her own shadow, and how she prayed for death when she felt she couldn’t take any more of the abuse. She wanted to make him feel the pain she felt, because he chose not to be a father to her.