|BERNICE POV|

Three years ago, I was just another twenty-one-year-old girl trying to survive college and navigate my way through life. I had dreams, goals, and a quiet strength. But none of that mattered the day my father knocked on my dorm door with desperation in his eyes and death hanging over his shoulders like a shadow.

He told me to follow him home, and I did. That’s when he explained to me that he owed a lot of money. Not to a bank, not to the government, but to him. The man people ...