“After everything I’ve done for you?”
Noah ignored him.
Tessa placed the photograph beside the badge and key.
“When I was little, people had a lot of opinions about what I might never be able to do.”
Her voice was still warm, but something deeper entered her expression.
“They wondered if I would ever have a real job.”
She touched the badge.
“They wondered if I could live independently.”
She touched the key.
“And some people wondered whether I would ever fall in love and get married.”
She touched the photograph.
Then she smiled.
“People can be very confident when they predict somebody else’s future.”
Noah looked up at her.
“And they were wrong?”
“Very.”
Across the room, Lucy suddenly grabbed the sides of her red dress.
And spun.
The skirt rose around her.
She laughed.
And spun again.
My mother-in-law had entered the center quietly.
She stood a short distance away, watching Lucy.
