The Adelaide Legacy Center opened its doors eighteen months later. It provided a home for dozens of veterans and women in need.

Skylar eventually stopped calling. She spent her time in Nashville, obsessed with her social standing and her dwindling share of the company.

I stayed in the Ozarks, living in the cabin that had once been called a shack. It was the most valuable thing I’d ever owned.

Not because of the minerals under the ground, but because it was the place where I finally learned to stand tall.

THE END.