I smiled for the first time in months and answered, “Yes, and this one will have the strongest foundation yet.”
As we drove toward a new chapter, I promised myself never again to ignore warning signs and never to underestimate what resentment can become when it festers for decades.
The Holloway name would endure not because of revenge alone but because justice had been pursued carefully and completely.
In the end Lauren and Blake received the fate they had designed for me, only they were the ones condemned to live with it.
