Shining Pearls Sneak Peek
Claire
I couldn’t believe I’d finally made it home. I’d escaped. This was the moment I’d been dreaming of and grasping onto as a beacon in the darkness for all of these months.
I stood at the front door of my house, wondering if I should knock or ring the doorbell. It was strange to not know the appropriate way to enter my own home. When I saw the keypad locking mechanism that we had installed as part of our front door upgrade, I decided to try my access code. When it worked, I took that as a good sign.
Grabbing the handle, I took a deep breath and stepped inside my home for the first time in over a year. The man standing in front of me, looking at me like I was a ghost, and my little girl were the reasons why I had fought so hard to survive. I had to make it
