Chapter 302

• He didn’t laugh at her, and his eyes didn’t falter from hers, “I don’t know as much about this as I’d like to, but it is my understanding that there is no magic or cure for this, managing it isn’t getting rid of it—getting rid of you or Minn, or even Leah.”
• “I need to know more.” She looked at the cup because she wasn’t sure what she was feeling. “I’ve always protected Leah, always and when I couldn’t,” she closed her eyes, “when I wasn’t able to keep going to get Leah far from that place, Minn came out and ran for days at a time.”
• “I know,” he reached across the table and lifted her chin gently so she’d look at him again, “I don’t know the details, I hope someday I will, but I do know there’s no Leah without you and no you without Leah. That’s not going to change, the only change will be it won’t be so hard on all of you, and I’m in the equation now.”