Author's POV

Jack felt frustrated and went to the bar. He ordered many bottles of alcohol and drank them one after the other. He thought back to the way Cindy had looked at him and pushed him out of the way and realized that his relationship with her had become badly strained.

It was difficult for him to get her trust in the beginning and now all his efforts had gone to waste. Most of what Bob had told her was true. But he is not the same person he was when he first brought her here under the ...