“Grandma will be okay if I don’t hear the results immediately,” Mom said, but that didn’t sit right with me. Grandma was the sick one, not me. And I had others here that would look out for me, so I wasn’t alone.
I just didn’t want to be alone.
“Aunt Kathy, Penny, and Dad will be here,” I said. “I’ll be okay.”
Amber’s POV
Even with Alice’s reassurance, I still felt bad for leaving. My little girl had been through so much. If she needed me, I wanted to be there for her, no matter what. Instead, I felt like I was putting my efforts elsewhere, just as I’d been doing for a while, when she should have always been my first priority.
Still, I couldn’t hover, as much as I wanted to. I was needed elsewhere, and I had her permission to go.
First, though, I made eye contact with Julian. He he
