My hag of a stepmom gave away my PlayStation 4 while I was away in college, so I rent

out her house while she was on her honeymoon with her newest husband.

I am an only son.

My mom died of a varying cancer at only 55 years old 5 years ago.

It broke my dad's heart.

They had been together since college and they were the same age with my dad being a month

older.

Now I'm 22 and I'm about to graduate college with my degree in chemistry when the main

events start to occur.

I went to college on a full ride scholarship.

This is important later.

My dad met my now stepmom when she was my mom's nurse at the hospital where she spent

her final days.

My stepmom Grace played all the right notes to gain my dad's trust.

She was empathetic to him, nurturing, and comforting after my mom passed.

I was 17 and old enough to sense that she was just trying to weasel her way into my dad's

resources, but it was up to my dad if he wanted to be in a relationship with her.

I was in my final year of public school and I had just won a scholarship to attend college

out of the country the following year.

My dad mourned my mom for a year and that whole time Grace would check in on him by phone

every month or so in my opinion to scope out the possibility of sinking her hooks into

him.

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