She never saw what happened to her mother.

She only knew that her mother had put herself between Maya and Julian and had spent what might have been her last free moments making sure her daughter was hidden and safe.

“Mommy told me to hide and not come out,” Maya whispered.

“So I didn’t.

I didn’t come out.

I waited for someone to come.” She looked up at me with her father’s stubborn chin and her mother’s dark eyes.