hair as she hugged me.
I knelt and held her tightly.
“I told you I would.”
“You did.”
Daniel stood nearby, watching us.
For a moment, the house felt less like a stranger’s home and more like the beginning of something I did not yet have a name for.
Mrs. Alvarez led me upstairs to a guest room. Clean clothes had been placed on the bed, along with towels and a small bottle of lavender soap.
I stood in the doorway.
“You prepared all this?”
“Daniel called ahead.”
“I can’t
