“I never needed payment, honey. I just needed you.”
“That’s why I wanted it.”
That day we went home together.
Through Lily's attorney, Jillian received a formal letter ending all of her attempts to get into my daughter's finances. We never heard from her again.
Three weeks later, Lily was by my side in a small courtroom and legally adopted my last name.
I reduced my hospital schedule to something a normal person could endure.
We came home together by car.
That night, we had dinner on the porch where the gift box had appeared before.
Lily laughed at something on her cell phone, and I was just looking.
