His Penance, Her Peace: The Quiet Atonement

life savings, carefully scraped together

e to transfer every penny for his "European re

I foolishly gave him my nest egg, believing his

etic disorder, needing immediate, experimen

his handsome face twisted with contemp

ancially," then threw the few hundred dollars he

blic hospital, I found Ethan celebrating, buying

uth: my love, my life, my son's existence

gamble with a new mother'

icked me, slamming me against a table, sending

ve another child, leaving me with nothing

a new life, found true love, and ag

who took everything from me, and can true redempt