Chapter 15 - FreedomThe handcuffs were removed.
Elena rubbed her wrists.
The marks were faint, but Daniel could not stop looking at them.
“I should have protected you,” he said.
“You did.”
“Not soon enough.”
Elena smiled sadly.
“Sometimes justice takes longer than we want.”
Mason ran toward her.
“Elena!”
She dropped to her knees.
He wrapped his arms around her.
Caleb followed.
For the first time that day, Elena laughed.
Daniel watched his children embrace the woman who had helped raise them.
And something became painfully clear.
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Family was not always determined by a last name.
Sometimes family was the person who stayed when everyone else left.
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Chapter 20 - What Comes NextThe following morning, the black car was gone.
