Chapter 54 - “GOOD GENES.”

"Don't corrupt them. There's time enough for that," Mrs. Fennel might say, and that was that. Daddy would back off. Someday, I thought, I would know why Mrs. Fennel, who was supposedly our housekeeper and nanny, had such power over Daddy, who was supposedly her employer. Either jokingly or maybe because she knew more than I did, Ava once said, "She's Daddy's mother. He got his good looks from her."