My daughter collapsed on my porch at 1 AM. Her lip was split, her face covered in bruises.

Behind her, the Arizona night stretched black and empty, the desert wind dragging dust across my driveway. I reached for her, and she collapsed into my arms like a frightened child. I knew violent men. I knew their voices, their patterns, their apologies. But nothing prepares you for the suffocating realization that one of those monsters married your daughter.

“Tyler?” I asked, my voice dangerously flat.

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