No hidden files.
No unanswered questions.
No running.
Just us.
And my grandfather was right.
The truth had hurt.
It had destroyed the version of our family I thought I knew.
But it had also given us something better.
A family that no longer needed secrets to survive.
And whenever I looked into my daughter’s mismatched eyes, I no longer saw a warning from the past.
I saw a promise for the future.
A promise that whatever happened before us…
ended with us.
And for the first time in my life, I wasn’t afraid of what came next.
I was ready.
Because now, we knew the truth.
And there was nothing left to hide.
THE END