Chapter 19 - The Last PhotographBefore leaving their old city, David had kept one photograph.
It showed him as a little boy sitting beside his mother.
For years, he had thought it represented love.
Now he understood that the picture contained both love and pain.
He didn't burn it.
He didn't destroy it.
He placed it in a box and stored it away.
Not because he wanted to remember everything.
Because he no longer needed to forget.
The past belonged in the past.
His future belonged to Maya.
That night, David stood beside her crib.
She slept peacefully.
He whispered:
"You will never have to earn your freedom from me."
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Then he kissed her forehead.
And walked away.
