There were nights the three of them had hunkered into one room, Iain sleeping across the door to keep their parents out, and Norah and Lachlan curled up to keep warm while their bellies ached and complained loudly. It had still been better than when their parents were anywhere near them.
"He was so disgusting and I hated the way he looked at our mother." It was not a secret she had been letting him fuck her as payment for the drugs, since they often did it in the open. Their father allowed it because he got the drugs too. "Though I cared less when she was beating me with a lamp."