It was his lifelong, secret campaign to push me toward my own confidence.

His intentions had come from love.

But that didn’t erase what he’d taken.

Chapter 7 — You Trusted Your Plan

“You believed I could succeed,” I told him. “But you never once believed I deserved to fully own my own life.”
“I wanted you to see yourself the way I see you,” he whispered.

“You didn’t trust me,” I said. “You trusted your plan.”

That was the thing he couldn’t answer.