Chapter 189: Enabling something Wrecked

Damian It wasn’t interesting. Lorian Williams was interesting. She was a single mother from the slums, getting pregnant at fifteen by her deadbeat high school dropout boyfriend. The two of them had become failed parents. It was the kind of story I’d see in passing on TV and call my dad to shake his head at, muttering about not trusting common people. So it was real, I thought to myself. She was real. I looked through the file George sent me. “Messy past,” he said. Lorian had been in prison twice, but not because of the kids. Every time someone raised concerns that her boyfriend might be molesting them, the charges were always dropped. There always seemed to be a reason to lie, and the children never spoke up. I gritted my teeth, thinking about what Charlotte must have endured. Lorian Williams herself was unremarkable. As a young woman, she had an unremarkable face with a high forehead that reflected so much light back at the camera, making her look nearly bald. Surprisingly, her lif