I kissed the top of her head and smiled.
“I told him you’re the smartest, bravest girl in the world.”
Richard sat on my other side and rested a steady hand on my shoulder.
“Thank you for coming back, Evelyn,” he whispered, his voice thick with emotion. “Thank you for not giving up on us.”
I looked from my father to my daughter—the living connection between everything our family had lost and everything we still had ahead of us.
“We didn’t just come back to tell the truth, Dad,” I said, slipping my hand into his. “We came back to bring our family home.”