Derek got my hundred dollars.

He did not get one degree of my heat.

And that, more than the court order, more than the seizures, was how I knew that my daughter and I had truly, finally, gotten free of him.

Chapter 19 — I Refuse to Waste Another Second

When Gaby came home, I told her about the encounter, and I watched her carefully, because I did not know how she would take it.

She was quiet for a long moment.