"Who?"
"Damian Prescott!"
Damian Prescott!
Isla Prescott hadn't heard that name in over a decade. Yet, the moment she did, her instinctive reaction was the same as her sister's: fear.
It was only then she realized with a jolt that in the dozen years since she'd run away, the wound in her heart had never truly healed. That name, that man, was like a thorn lodged in the most fragile crevice of her memory.
Damian Prescott was Isla Prescott's father.
He was a man born in a poor, mountainous region, who treated being female as a crime and ruled his family with his fists.
Back then, not long after giving birth to her first daughter, Susan Dudley had been forced by the misogynistic Damian Prescott—who prized sons over daughters—to have a second child. Unfortunately, the second was also a daughter.
