Crouching down behind the sofa, I giggled to myself.
He’ll never find me here, I thought.
‘Ready or not, here I come,’ my stepdad David’s* best friend Christopher, then 18, called out.
‘Found you!’ he laughed, tickling me.
I was five when I met Christopher, when my mum, Nicki*, 25, and David, 19, got together.
He was always at ours, bringing lollies and playing games with me and my sister, Ruby*, then one.
Christopher was like an uncle to us.
Then one day when