Chapter 18 - JUSTICE
The months that followed were slow and strange.
The estate was untangled. The business was restructured. Ethan took over our father’s company—rebuilding it, cleaning out the corruption, making it something our father would have been proud of. Lila moved into the guest house. She planted a garden. She laughed again. Slowly.
And Caleb… Caleb healed.
He went to school. He made friends. He learned to ride a bicycle. He still woke up sometimes crying from nightmares. He still asked sometimes—quietly, at night—whether I would ever leave him.
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And every single time, I held him and told him the same thing.
“I will never leave you. I am yours. And you are mine. Forever.”
