Page 123 of Girls Night
I was proud of her, too. She had found work at Magdalene House, and even though I always knew she had it in her, she was still amazed that she enjoyed working in the outreach program she and Diane had been working on for the past few months. She was good at what she did, and the girls loved her. She knew she couldn’t save them all from the TJs of the world, but what she did offer was hope.
Like me, Devon was taking it slowly, learning more about herself and healing the inside as much as the outside. Together we had found ourselves, maybe for the first time in our lives. We could honestly say we were happy with who we were and how far we’d come.
The future was ours, and nothing ruled us anymore.
“I love you, little bird,” she said, kissing my cheek.
“I love you, too.”
The sky was still high enough to be wary, but with Devon at my side, together we could fly wherever our wings took us, and that was all that mattered.
The End
