“I thought I was never going to make it out of that driveway.”

“You made it out,” Richard said.

“And you’re never going back.”

Emily laid her head back on the pillow and shut her eyes.

“He kept telling me nobody outside that neighborhood would ever listen to me.”

“He was wrong about that,” Richard said.

“I know,” she said quietly.

“I can finally breathe without waiting for something to slam into the wall.”