A real smile.
“Mom?”
“Yes?”
She took a deep breath.
“That night, when I knocked on your door, I thought my life was over.”
I squeezed her hand.
“But it wasn’t.”
She looked out at the skyline.
“It was the night my real life began.”
And as I watched my daughter—stronger than ever—I realized something.
Some people enter your life because they love you.
Others enter because they want something from you.
But Carmen Robles made one fatal mistake.
She thought she was attacking a frightened young bride.