Lila's Story - Part 4

Lila

She could feel herself shaking. Dane squeezed her hand again and she tried to thank him, but she couldn't do anything except get through the memories, get them out. She sucked in a shaking breath and kept going. She had to own her own part in this.

"The truth is, I helped my father turn suspicion on an innocent man. It took two years, but eventually I got public opinion—on the matter of my father's character, at least—turned around. I got the media to believe my father was a victim. And even though there was less pressure, and more people behind him, I had to watch my Dad get scarier and scarier. His anger turned to aggression. His aggression turned to violence. And he hurt my mother so badly—in so many ways—that she disappeared too. She got addicted to pills and spent most of her days in bed watching stupid television shows and buying things on the internet.