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VERENA SUFFERED THROUGH the next week in a blur of action. Between taking the girls to school, preparing dinner and washing clothes, helping them with homework, visiting Mia, talking with physicians, managing finances, and looking for work, she was exhausted.
She was sure she’d made the right decision again about Lance, but that didn’t lessen the pervasive pain in her heart.
That day, she’d hurried from the car to the house so that he wouldn’t see her break down. It wasn’t until after he’d left and she’d dried her tears that she wondered what he’d meant about keeping promises.
After Mia’s physician approved her release from the hospital, Verena gathered her grandmother’s personal items from the room. “Ready to go home?”
“Indeed I am,” Mia said. “I just wish I didn’t have to leave i
