Semua Bab No Longer Their Daughter: Bab 11

[The baby kicked today. I hope she grows up healthy and happy. If it's a girl, I'll call her Alexis. I hope she's smart and safe.]The tears finally broke free.So I had been loved.Even if the person who loved me was long gone, that love traveled more than 20 years ahead and warmed a heart that had gone cold long ago.I wasn't some unwanted weed.I was a treasure who came into this world carrying love.When I stepped out of the old house, the sky had cleared.Mason was leaning against the car, an unlit cigarette between his fingers.When he saw my swollen eyes, he didn't ask what happened. He just crushed the cigarette and opened his arms."Ready to go home?"I threw myself into his embrace and nodded hard."Let's go home."-Three years later…I opened a nonprofit legal aid center downtown called Lexis, focused on helping women facing domestic violence and injustice.I still wore a glove on my left hand, but I no longer hid it.When someone came to me for help, I woul