And I answered.

And whatever it cost me — and it cost me a great deal — I know now that it was the truest thing I have ever done, and I did not need anyone to watch me do it for it to be true.

Chapter 9 — The Last Winter

The last winter was the hardest of all of them, and somewhere in the middle of it I understood that it would be the last, though I did not let myself say the word.

Fiona stopped eating well.