Every practical consideration in the world told her to take the fifty thousand dollars and do what he said.

And she stood up, and she left the money on the desk, and she walked out, and she chose to carry a threatened pregnancy entirely alone rather than let that man erase her child.

I do not know that I would have had that courage at eighteen.

I am not certain I would have it now.

My daughter had it, in the worst moment of her life, with everything against her, and she never once told a living soul how brave she had been.

Chapter 18 — Keep Him Hidden