Chapter 5
Drake was only five patients in, but he was ready to head home. He’d stayed up far too late reading articles about helping young children cope with the death of a parent. He hoped he’d find something that would help him be able to get Charlotte to talk, but he’d been unsuccessful. From what he could gather, she’d speak when she was ready. But what if she was never ready? What if she was twenty-three, and he still had to interpret what she needed through trial and error? How would she be able to handle the real world, when he wasn’t there to interpret for her?
There weren’t many things Drake couldn’t figure out, and this…this was something he had no choice but to get right. Not only for him, but for Charlotte and her future.
He rested back in his oversized leather desk chair an
