Finally See (Finally Book 1)

Prologue Part 1 - Rose

"Do you want to go to the bank with me?" Dad asks me.

I turn my chair toward him even though I can't see. I have been blind since birth. My mother had an infection while she was pregnant with me and it attacked my nervous system and caused me to be blind at birth.

"Sure." I say. Mainly because I want to get out of this house away from mom.

Mom has been blaming me for my sister's death even though I wasn't there when she died, but apparently that means that I was still in the blame. Not to mention that my sister died from cancer.

I grab my snap able cane and snap it together and get up and dad places my hand onto his arm.

Even though I don't like it when people do that to me, I don't say anything because my dad only does it because he wants to keep me as his little girl.

He brings me out to the car and I open the door and get it.

Dad closes the door for me and I buckle in. I hear the driver's door open and close as dad get in.

"Why are we going to the bank?" I ask.

"Because I want to make sure that you have money for college that your mother can't touch." He says.

I know what he means. Mom has never been my biggest fan. In fact she has told me more times than I can count that she hates me and that I never should've been born.

Dad has told me last year that she isn't my birth mother, that he had an affair with the woman that he had always been in love with but wasn't allowed to be with her.

He has come from old money and was put in an arranged marriage with my stepmom.

"Okay." I say excitedly.

It takes about ten minutes to get to the bank.

When the car stops I wait until I hear the car turn off before unbuckling and getting out. I snap my cane together and then tap it on the ground as I walk forward.

I get to the door and start to open it when I get shoved inside from behind.

I stumble forward trying to catch my footing but I trip over something anyways and fall to the floor.

"Oomph." My breath rushes out of me when I hit the floor.

Why'd someone shove me?

I start to get up but then freeze when I feel the barrel of a gun.

"Stay on the floor." I hear a familiar male voice say. Where do I know that voice?

I move back down onto the floor, hyperventilating.

"Everyone take out your phone and wallets. Now!" He says in a harsh tone. I now know where I have heard that voice before. School.

Why is someone from school trying to rob a bank? Who is this guy?

"Just let my daughter go. She's blind. It's not like she can tell on who you are." Dad says pleadingly.

"Oh, I know she's blind." He says in a mocking tone.

I close my eyes as they fill with tears. A tear escapes and rolls down my cheek.

I feel a finger touch my cheek and wipe it away.

"No need to cry sweetie." He says in an affectionate voice. "I am doing this for you. You said that you wish that you didn't have to live with your mother." He says softly into my ear so that only I can hear him.

I gasp in shock because the only person that I told that to was my best friend, Syrena.

He must've been listening to my conversation with her.