"It wasn't exactly self-defence." Abigail wanted to be honest with Will. She was tired of having secrets. "He had his rifle. He said I could only have one Dad. He was going to kill Papa. You would have been next. And then he would have started strangling girls again. I had to stop him." She looked up at him when he touched her hair. "It makes it hard to love people. Not just because I don't want to get hurt. I don't want to hurt anyone I love either."