The Prostitute's Daughter by Adrienne Ruvalcaba

Author:Adrienne Ruvalcaba [Ruvalcaba, Adrienne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Multicultural, Romantic Suspense, Multicultural & Interracial, Mystery & Suspense, Suspense
ISBN: 0985467215
Amazon: B00MNIL9AW
Published: 2014-08-11T04:00:00+00:00

Cece Graves,

I’m sure by now you’ve cursed me a thousand times in your mind, maybe even a million. I’ve always been sorry for my part in what was done to you all those years ago. I’ve just never had the courage to come forward and apologize. I guess you are wondering why I suddenly have the courage to come forward now, but it isn’t courage. It’s just that now I have nothing to lose.

Just last year, my own daughter was raped by several young men from her university. Following a very public and humiliating trial, the men were acquitted and my daughter ended her own life.

From the first moment of this ordeal, I’ve known that my present circumstances are the universe’s way of paying me back for what happened to you in Atlanta. I believe you Americans might call it poetic justice, but I know it as karma.

For months now, I’ve been trying to gather the courage to beg you for the forgiveness that I know I don’t deserve. My dear daughter Sita would be shocked at my past actions if she were alive today. I doubt even she would forgive me, and she’s loved me her entire life. I’ve thought a million times about what I should say and how I should say it, but nothing I’ve come up with seems to be enough. Nothing I can say to you will ever take it away or make it right.

The impact of those actions didn’t become clear to me until I witnessed my own daughter fall apart when it happened to her. I wish with my entire heart that I could take away the pain she went through, and all the pain you must have gone through. The night I found her in her room dead, I felt as if my soul had been permanently ripped from my body. I will never be a normal, simple man again. My daughter was the only person I had, the only person I have ever loved.

I’ve been trying to tell you for months now how sorry I am, but I never seem to catch you at the right time. That is why I decided to write this letter instead of trying to explain in person. There is just too much to say. Last time I saw you in the park, you smiled at me. You didn’t recognize me. You wouldn’t of course, not after all this time, and not after being blindfolded until I set you free. Whatever you think of me, I hope you remember that I did set you free, although I didn’t have to. Only God knows what that man would have done to me had he caught me.

Perhaps you will forgive me enough to tell me what happened to Sarah. I watched you visit her grave in the cemetery the day of that big thunderstorm. In all these years, I never considered the fact that a child could have resulted from my actions. Now that I know I’ve likely fathered two dead daughters, my pain has increased beyond measure.

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