Mum re-married at the age of 40, when I was 18. I'd noticed him looking at me. Sometimes I got the feeling he was staring at me and I DID catch him staring at me occasionally. My name is Lilac.

When I turned 20, after 2 years of stable marriage with my mum, and after he had established himself in our household, my stepfather sat me down in my bedroom to talk to me. My sister Daisy (yeah, mum likes flowers) and my mum were visiting my grandmother and they were staying there overnight; so I was alone in the house with my stepfather.