Chapter 3 - On the final page, she stood alone on a cliff while the ocean struck the rocks below.

She did not return to the man who had betrayed her.
She walked toward a future she could not yet see.
I called Samuel at six in the morning.
“Tell Daniel I’ll do it.”
There was a pause.
“Are you sure?”
For the first time since the restaurant, I was.
“Yes.”
After the call, I stepped outside.
Mist covered the field, and the first light of morning rested on the mountains.
May you like
I walked to the small patch of soil I had cleared.
Then I planted the first row of seeds.