He Gave Me 4 Minutes to Shower… Until His Father Stepped In and Changed Everything.

When the beeping started, I lunged for the handle, but Gerald cut the water, anyway. I filled a bucket and finished rinsing in silence.

He passed the doorway, saw me crouched there, and said, “You need to learn to manage your time better.”

I couldn’t answer because I had started adapting, and that scared me more than the timer did.

“I hear the baby. That’s the issue.”