67_Homecoming Tensions

Eloise

I didn’t know what I was expecting when I pulled into the airport parking lot, but it wasn’t this.

It had been three years since my dad left. Three long years of silence that stretched between us like a cold void. The heart problems that sent him overseas had been serious, life-threatening even. And with Jadeline, my stepmom, by his side, I didn’t expect the same father I remembered. He had always been the life of the party, loud, charismatic, the type of ...