I’m stunned, shocked, and shattered as I stare at the ceiling. It’s more of a prison cell now than a bedroom. I feel conned, cheated, betrayed.

Used.

No…worse than that. It’s a feeling so sharp and so terrifying that I’m barely able to admit it…

I feel heartbroken.

When Fred took me – when I called him Daddy – something changed inside me. A safety, unlike anything I had ever known, swept over me like a warm blanket. I felt at home in his arms, and when he made me a woman, I felt as though the universe had delivered to me the man I was meant to be with....