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.

distant, like something that was happening in another world entirely. Olivia’s world, the one she had just begun to rebuild, was quiet—sacred, almost—as if everything had shifted into a new, raw reality that no one could take from her.

Megan helped Olivia out of her wedding dress, the white gown that now felt like a costume—a symbol of the life she continue reading …