Raquel’s POV

“Once upon a time, there was a foolish girl who thought she knew everything there was to know about the world. She’d been told harsh truths since she was a child, in the tender moments when she wasn’t frightened and when she wasn’t hiding in her mother’s skirts as the tall men approached. These were the moments the little girl cherished above all others because these were the moments where her mother treated her like a “grown-up” and ...