Chapter 43

Despite the rough start, the next weeks were some of the happiest that Laney could remember in her life. Though she was recovering from a brutal beating, nothing could take away from the fact that she received, for the first time in her life, unlimited access to her daughter in a place that felt safe. It was the best gift that anyone had ever given her. And the man she had to thank was largely absent as Laney got to know her daughter in a way previously denied to her. She suspected this was deliberate on his part.