“Because I’ve been where you are right now,” she says. “Wife to a current don. Mother to the next. Feeling alone and scared and hopeless. I have hit rock bottom too many times to count. And every time, I thought I wouldn’t make it back to the light. But I did.”
We pull apart and I stare at her desperately. “I’m not sure I’m strong enough to do that.”
“Oh, trust me, honey,” she says gently. “You are. I’ll show you.”
I stare out my window, watching Olivia walk by the lake with my father, and thinking one thought over and over again.
She drives me f*****g crazy.
At first glance, she doesn’t look like she should even be capable of such a thing. She’s pushing his wheelchair and talking animatedly. About what, I have no clue, but the old man seems to enjoy her company. At this point, he pro
