Safe.

The word was being used for something I had not approved and my daughter did not need.

It gave a plan to remove her a caring label.

I wondered how often I had accepted that kind of label from Derek because it sounded better than what he was actually doing.

Rachel warned me against answering that question by rewriting eight months as an endless list of crimes I should have recognized.

“You can examine decisions without prosecuting yourself for trusting someone,” she said.