“You didn’t betray me. You did the best you could. And you became everything he never was.”
Standing there, holding my son, I finally understood something.
We were never broken.
We were shaped by everything we survived.
We were held together by love.
And nothing Derek did—his lies, his threats, his return—could ever undo what we built.
We were never anchors.
We were the ship.
And we made it back to shore.
