When the Lights Go Out, the Vows Get Tested in the Dark

still need help.”

I rubbed my face. “Help doesn’t exist the way people think it does.”

Rachel nodded. “Then we have to build it. Like you always did. Like you always taught us.”

That sentence hit me in the softest place.

Because it was true.

I’d built everything in my life with my hands and stubbornness. A home. A family. A marriage that survived layoffs,continue reading …