"She thought locking a shivering 8-year-old girl outside in the freezing cold was just ""handling a distraction."" She was about to lose everything. ❄️🚫
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Chapter 9 / 11
Chapter 9 – Healing
Months later...
Lily still disliked glass balconies.
She slept with a small night-light.
Sometimes she woke from nightmares.
Instead of hiding them...
She talked.
Ethan enrolled both of them in family counseling.
They learned healing wasn't pretending pain never happened.
Healing meant facing it together.
Every Friday became "Lily Day."
No business meetings.
No phone calls.
Just father and daughter.
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Slowly...
Her laughter returned.
