Brooklynn continued her private therapy appointments and her group therapy meetings. Things between her and Dave seemed to get better and better each day. Bethany filed her complaints and got an immediate transfer to a new cutter in the San Diego area.
Every night, Dave told her a little more about his job. Stories from the past or whatever had happened that day. He never really seemed to be in any danger or do much of anything that felt dangerous to Brooklynn.
April dawned, and with it, the apple trees started to blossom. It was her favorite time of year, and she begged Dave to take her out into the orchards, so they could hold hands and kiss under the flowering tree branches.
“There’s a whole town that does a huge carnival with the apple blossoms,” she told him when he insisted they w
