CHAPTER 26
She was at a birthday party in Anchorage. The kids were dressed up in pirate and princess costumes, laughing and drinking punch. Pip was sitting at the table, playing a puzzle game with two other little boys wearing eye patches and striped pants. He looked just as comfortable as the other children there, and even more amazing, he was laughing.
Kimmie excused herself from the chattering group of moms standing around with coffee cups in hand and stepped closer to her brother.
“My turn!” Pip exclaimed in a perfectly clear voice. “I get to go next.”
Kimmie felt her entire core swelling with a pride so strong she wasn’t sure her body could contain it all.
And then the fragments of her dream came crashing down around her like so many pieces of broken glass. She was awake. She was
