Riley’s POV

Three days pass before I have enough strength to leave the room for more than a few minutes, although I suspect it is largely due to the fatigue I feel. It's not so much from the shooting, but rather from the strain.

For months, if not years I have carried fear on my back. Fear of my father, fear that something would happen to Hannah, fear of poverty, hunger and so many other things, that now at last, it's as if I've let it all out and out my system.

It's a ...