Chapter 19 - HomeThat night, Daniel and I sat on the porch swing.
The stars stretched across the Texas sky.
He wrapped his arm around me.
“Are you happy?”
I looked at the ranch.
At the house my parents had left me.
At the foundation.
At the children sleeping inside.
At Clara laughing in the kitchen.
I thought about Ryan.
The man who had once controlled my entire world.
Now he was nothing but a name behind prison walls.
“I’m happier than I ever thought possible.”
Daniel kissed my forehead.
“You deserve it.”
I closed my eyes.
For eleven years, I had thought home was a mansion.
Then I learned home wasn't a building.
Home was safety.
Home was truth.
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Home was the people who stayed when everything fell apart.
For the first time in my life, I was truly home.
