It should not have come down to luck.

A person like Teresa should never have to depend on luck to be safe in the house she has given thirteen years to.

That it did is a failure I have had to own.

Something in me went very cold and very clear.

I have a temper, though most people who know me would be surprised to hear it, because I learned young to keep it under glass.

What I felt looking at Teresa was not the hot kind of anger.