Bold and bright enough to fill up all the aching spaces inside me. Enough to sustain and encourage when part of me wanted to break. It gave me the courage to shun the creeping fear and push on with our lives. The kind of life I’d always promised to give my daughter. Only now, that promise had extended to me. I pushed all thoughts of Martin aside and smiled at April who tucked a big lock of curls behind Kallie’s ear, my precious child beaming with all the teasing April had been tossing her way. “Oh right…I see how it is. The two of you just up and ditch me the second something better comes along.” My best friend shook her head in feigned offense and tucked a few more of Kallie’s shirts into her suitcase. I knocked my hip into April, grinning just as wide. “You know you’re going to love it. This big old house to yourself for the next who knows how long? Maybe it’s time you started doing a little entertaining of your own.”
