Chapter 3: Chapter 3

“Darling, please,” her mother said, grabbing at his arm. “Calm down. Remember your blood pressure.”

“Blood pressure. Who cares about my blood pressure? Did you even hear what she said, what she did?”

Natasha thought they’d be disappointed at first, but when they heard of the amazing life she’d lived, she assumed they would be as excited as she was.

“Dad, you aren’t listening?” she began.

“Of all the stupid things that you could do, this would be it. You’ve never gone against our wishes before. How could you, knowing how we felt about it?”

“But Dad, I…” she began.

“How could you put yourself in danger like that when we’d already expressed our feelings on the subject?” He rose angrily, pacing the floor. “Why…this…this friend of Caitlin’s could have made the whole thing up.”

“He didn’t. I saw the footage.”

“I don’t care what you saw. He could have coerced it from you before he brought you around, fiddled around with the footage.”