On my wedding day, I walked in with a black eye. My fiancé stood beside me… and when he looked at my mother, he smiled. Then he said, “She needed to learn.” The room burst into laughter. And that’s when I did something no one expected.

Olivia’s. “You’ve been living in someone else’s shadow for so long. It’s going to take time to find your own path, to figure out who you are without all the noise.”

“But I don’t want to go back to that,” Olivia said quickly. “I don’t want to be who I was before, the person who let her mother control everything, the person who thought she needed to be continue reading …