Chapter Twenty-Two
Sage
My first session with the therapist had gone well. She made me see that I wasn’t the most terrible person in the world. And if I was going to be able to do what needed to be done for my son, I had to forgive myself — which would be a process and not an overnight thing.
The meeting Callan and I had had with the therapist earlier that week had gone great. But I was on edge about the first meeting that River and I would have with our family therapist. I’d told Granny the truth, and she’d opted to hang out with her sister while we had the meeting at her house.
I put a tray of cookies on the coffee table. “So, I’ve been putting off telling you this, River, but we’re going to have someone come over here in just a bit.”
“Someone like who?” He picked up a cookie and to
