They’re expecting us.

I’ve moved every dollar of my deployment pay into a secure account in your name, for your treatment, and there is more where that came from, and you are going to see the best doctors in the region, and you are going to have the best care that exists, and you are never going to have to sell one more piece of yourself to buy the right to live.

Not ever again.”

I got in beside her, and I started the engine.

“And when the treatment is done,” I said, pulling out of the driveway of that terrible house for the last time, “we are not coming back here.

I’m selling this place.