Your father hates you

For eight years, you believed your father had lost the ability to love. After your mother died, your father became cold, cruel, and distant—leaving you to raise yourself inside a house that never felt like home. So the moment you turned eighteen, you prepared to disappear from his life forever. Then you found the address. A pale-blue house in Linden Falls. A woman you had never met. Two young children calling your father “Daddy.” Through the window, you witness Daniel laughing, smiling, and holding them with a tenderness he never once offered you. He did not become heartless after your mother died. He simply saved his heart for another family.