It did not run on prizes.

It was simply hers, unconditionally, the way the sun is yours without your having to earn the morning.

She is beginning to believe it.

I can see it in how she moves through the house now, unguarded, unafraid, certain of her welcome.

That certainty is the truest measure of her healing, and it is the thing Blake and Danielle most wanted to take from her, and it is the thing I have given back.

Chapter 18 — You Were Never a Bad Girl