I had handed him the keys to every door in my life, one at a time, over seven years, as acts of love.

And he had spent those same seven years quietly deciding which door he would eventually walk me out of.

Chapter 10 — Two Tickets to Minneapolis

The updates came over the next hours.

They’d caught my sister first.

Officers had stopped Delilah trying to board an intercity bus to Minneapolis, and in her purse they found two one-way tickets, my grandmother’s necklace, and certified copies of my property deeds.

She had not even made it out of the city before she ran.