That’s mine to carry.”
It was the truest thing he had ever said to me, and it was the first real brick in whatever we were going to build back.
Chapter 28 — The Cup We Left Behind
A month later we moved — a bright new house near Elspeth’s school, new phone numbers, a real security system.
Elspeth started seeing a therapist who works with children, and for a long time she wouldn’t eat or drink anything she hadn’t watched me make with her own eyes, and I let her watch, every time, for as long as she needed.
My liver will take a while to fully mend, but the doctors say it will.