“You did it, Jack,” she whispered.
Then why couldn’t Terra knock down that wall in her heart to risk loving and losing again?
Mom’s words to her, mere hours before she was killed, came back to her.
“The direction your life takes can often come down to one decision, one moment in time.”
Terra had begged her to stay home that day. Mom had chosen to go. She couldn’t have known her decision would cost her life.
Considering the life decisions Terra had made so far, that one moment, that one decision that would change her life, had not happened yet as far as she could tell. Unless her walking out on Jack in his hospital room counted. It felt pivotal. It felt life-changing. It should be freeing. Instead, it was anything but. And like Mom, how could Terra know when that all-important pivotal moment was on her? Maybe one never really knew, and it wasn’t so cut-and-dried as Mom had suggested.
A knock came at the door.
She’d told Allie to text when she was home and Terra would come over. She wasn’t quite prepared to see Allie. She wiped her face on her sleeves and opened the door. Surprise and confusion filled her. “Oh, hi. What are you doing here?”
“I need your help.”
She opened the door wider. The sooner she got it over with, the sooner she could be done.
“Would you like tea or coffee?”
“Coffee would be nice.”
Terra turned to head for the kitchen and a prick stung her arm. Dizziness swept through her, then darkness took her.