Not out of cruelty, but because it was hers, the one thing in ten years he had never managed to forge her signature on, and she would spend it in her own time or not at all.
There was more strength in that quiet refusal than in any punishment the court could hand down.
Chapter 17 — A Family Not Afraid of Conflict
After the trial, Ezra convinced his parents to divide the year — some months near him in San Antonio, where the care was best, and some in the Pinecrest house he paid to have fully restored, because he would not tear them out of the town that held their whole life.
Wendell’s strength came back slowly; he began taking long morning walks again, farther each week.
Deborah’s color returned, and with it her Sunday dinners.