Chapter Thirteen
Lissa
Swimming took everything away, leaving me weightless, free of my need for control. But Garret had done the same.
Lips pursed, I paused in my laps of feeling a sense of freedom, hand on the edge of the pool long enough for me to catch my breath somewhat.
Mom was doing well at a long term care facility until fully healed, which the doctors expected would take place within a matter of months. I was back home at the Laurents, confident in the law’s ability to keep Mom’s ex-boyfriend behind bars.
The stress eating at me for almost two weeks had eased when I’d returned to work two days earlier and Mrs. Hummel had wrapped her arms around me. I’d let loose then—and only then—sobbing against her shoulder, draining myself dry, but invigorating my depleted emotions.
I wro
