Even when the sun was shining she couldn’t see it. The whole house was closing in on her and she was suffocating.
It was the closest she’d ever come to praying. Even in her darkest moments, she had never turned to God. That was her mom’s deal, not hers.
Maddie breathed in deep, inhaling the scent of breakfast and dish soap, clean laundry and wood floors, sunshine and a room filled with love. It smelled like home.
Have you ever loved someone so much, you felt like your heart was going to just beat right out of your chest?
Shhh,” Mr. Winston whispered into her hair. “It’s going to be okay. It’s going to be okay.” He said it over and over again, just as the boy had done when she was at her most helpless. He rocked her with each stanza of the hypnotic prayer, a...
She drifted down into the water, letting it engulf her body until even her face was underwater. The silence was delicious, just the sound of her own heartbeat in her ears.
