Chapter 15 - A NEW BEGINNING
One year later, I stood in my sunny backyard, watching Maya take her first steps toward her father. The air smelled of grass and possibility, not the stale, cold scent of a storage room.
I looked back at the house, feeling the deep, profound peace of knowing that no one could ever lock me away again. I had taken the most traumatic day of my life and turned it into the foundation of my absolute freedom, and standing there under the clear blue sky, I knew I had finally won.
