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With the s, we hadn’t had led with letting Ethan out of rocery store because I’d been convinced Eric would send someone after him Ethan had acco, but it had just been this past week that he’d finally put his foot down He’d reo fill out his paperwork at the hospital he’d gotten a job at, that he ht not know for sure if I’d followed hiot home and since I refused to lie to him, he’d know the truth either in my answer or in my silence

It had been the longest hour ofthe app on my phone that would show me the location of Ethan’s phone It was a concession he’d been rant me

As we’d navigated our way through the process of getting justice for Ethan, we’d had to ether Lucy had been a glaring sticking point because Ethan had been certain I’d object to the girl living with us permanently And while I’d quickly divested him of that notion, it had taken a little s over with Lucy While she’d been relieved to learn that Ethan had started the process of beco her eventually, she’d been less sure about ed towith Ethan for DC, she hadn’t completely trusted me I’d had no doubt soles I’d still faced being around her once we’d returned to Seattle I’d finally taken her aside and explained what had happened to et to a point where I trusted her just asith Lucy and while she and I occasionally butted heads, ed to roup of three into a family

Once things had been ironed out with Lucy, Ethan and I had needed to make some other decisions, na to stay in Seattle, but it had never even been a question in o home and home was San Francisco He’d cried when I’d told him that, as had several members of his faht It hadn’t taken ether since I’d prettyout of hotels in the four years since I’d left Indiana It had been Ethan who’d suggested I donate randmother’s house in Indiana to a charity for victims of domestic abuse since it was completely paid for and we didn’t need the one with s I’d really wanted…the pictures of rand in our kitchen so it would feel like they ith us every time we’d eaten a meal in there

I hadn’t done anything with my parents’ house after the police had contacted me to notify me of their deaths Nor had I claimed their bodies I’d simply told the police to treat them as they would any unidentified persons because that hat they’d become to me A lawyer had contacted me a couple of er inheritance I’d been left as the only next of kin I’d told hi the fifty thousand dollars my mother had taken from my trust to fund her escape with my father

I was about to tell Ethan he’d do great at his first day on the job the following day when his sister, Eden, ca roohter was asleep

“You’re a miracle worker,” she whispered to me as she reached down and took the baby so she could put her down in her crib

I’d gotten along better with Ethan’s family over the months after we’dtime to adjust to the sheer voluular basis, but they’d all been understanding once I’d explained my past to them None of them ever pushed me to interact with them more than I was comfortable with and they never looked down on et over otten to a point that I could comfortably sit around a table with the room as they fanatically cheered on whatever favorite local sports teaao I’d been tense, but Ethan had worked it out so his fa on both sides and directly behind us I’d still spent an inordinate a for threats, but I’d been able to relax enough by the end of the gaaer memories of the day of my attack for me, but it hadn’t Maybe it was just easy for me to compart with ered, but I knew that with Ethan’s and his fa of the past soon enough