Nothing had ever been easy for you as a child. Your father constantly swapped partners, very young women, and it confused you when you were small. All he was doing was picking girls that he knew were too immature to understand his manipulation.

You'd always craved the attention of older men as you grew up. You would do anything for their attention, attracting them to you so you would be validated by men just like your father.

Kyle had always been your safe space, the man who you could run to when it all went wrong. He was a 34 year old sergeant, and you were barely 23. He always felt wrong, being so close to someone so young, but how could he deny someone he pitied so badly? He knew it wasn’t your fault. You looked for love in places that all of your father’s girlfriends had. The cycle continues.