He gave the power back to the person it had been stolen from.

That is a rare kind of wisdom in a parent, and I did not fully appreciate it until I watched what it did to my daughter the very next morning.

Chapter 18 — Will You Still Be My Dad?

Chloe turned the little velvet box over and over in her hands, feeling its weight, and then she asked the two questions that told me exactly how deep Beatrice’s poison had gone.

“Is Grandma going to be mad at us?” she asked first, looking up at Caleb with worried eyes.