document in Rachel’s hands.
“This is simply the result of what you did with yours.”
Rachel suddenly grabbed my arm.
I gently removed her hand.
“Please,” she whispered. “We have nowhere to go.”
For a moment, I saw the woman I had once loved.
But then I remembered my mother trembling in the nursery.
I remembered the white flowers lying on the empty floor.
I remembered holding two crying babies while trying to understand how the people I trusted most had betrayed me.
And I remembered every night since then.