“Please tell me you’re deleting this.”
I smiled.
“I’m going.”
Her eyebrows rose.
“Why would you give these people another chance to hurt you?”
I turned toward the windows.
“Because I’m not going there as the woman Conrad remembers.”
Delaney studied me for a moment.
Then she smiled.
“He has absolutely no idea, does he?”
“Not even close.”
PART 2: The Four Children He Never Stayed Long Enough to Meet
The morning of December twenty-fifth arrived bright and clear.
Before sunrise, my four children were already moving around the house,
