Chapter 5: A Promise Finally Kept
Chapter 5: A Promise Finally Kept
Three months later...
Emily gave birth to a healthy baby girl.
Colonel Bennett stood beside her hospital bed holding his granddaughter for the first time.
Tiny fingers wrapped around one of his.
He smiled through tears.
"Your grandmother would've spoiled you."
Emily laughed.
For the first time in nearly a year...
it sounded real.
She looked out the hospital window.
The fear was gone.
The bruises had faded.
The nightmares hadn't.
Not yet.
Healing, she learned, wasn't something that happened overnight.
But it had finally begun.
Colonel Bennett placed a tiny knitted sweater beside the crib.
It was the last gift Emily's late mother had started making before cancer took her.
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Emily held it against her daughter.
"I'll tell her all about you."
