Kylie Bray (Love, Hate and Billions) novel Chapter 57

No father wants to hear the things I've heard tonight, or see those videos that arrived in my office four nights ago.

I never raised my kids to be weak, I have never promised my kids childish things.

Kylie will always be my eldest, but still somehow managed to stay my baby. I never loved Hunter but the day I saw my Kylie in her arms I knew that I would do anything for that little girl.

She's always been something special, riding life as it comes, knocking it down, wall for wall.

She reminds me of myself- driven, ambitious, tough.

Now I see my baby in my arms after three years because deep down she knew loving him was wrong.

She never could face me when she had secrets.

Parenting doesn't come with a handbook full of all the answers, especially if you have kids like mine.

It isn't an easy job, and that just tells you how important a job it is.

When my kids need me I know when to step in, and when they don't I hide in the shadows, keeping my eyes on them, watching them fall, so they can get back up stronger.

It never gets easy.

But now, tragedy has struck my baby, she was raped, beaten, tortured, and all that time we searched for her.

When I finally got the information about Beggar's whereabouts I phoned Kevin, always the savior.

It wasn't long when they found my girl.

Only I know she isn't my baby any longer. I can see it in her eyes, and it is going to kill me when I let her go.

But I have to.

Kylie has always been the strongest of my kids, the one who will survive, and I need her to make these choices on her own.

Deep down she knows what she has to do. And when she's ready I will be waiting.

Kylie

It's been a month since I have seen papa. I spent a week with him, just remembering the good ole days living a good ole fashion life.

Until he came for me. It was exactly seven days, one week gone that Vincent came to my father's penthouse.

I've never seen him so disheveled as he was that afternoon.