“Thank you, Mom,” the teenager whispered. “I thought you wouldn’t believe me. I thought you were going to leave me alone with him.”
Rebecca stroked his hair, feeling a knot of love and pain in her throat, but knowing that they had won the most important battle of their lives.
—Never, my love. The whole world can burn, but I will always believe you and I will always defend you. The silence is over forever in this family.
That healing embrace was the ultimate proof that no monster is invincible when a mother’s love stands in its way. Pain had marked them, but truth and justice had saved them.
