Chapter 49

• Both mother and daughter clung to each other, their sobs filling the room.
• Scarlett felt like her chest might burst from the intensity of it all. For the first time in what felt like forever, she let herself sink into her mother’s embrace, into the warmth she thought she’d lost forever.
• Her face pressed into her mother’s shoulder, and she breathed in that familiar scent, soft and floral, the smell of home, of safety, and unconditional love. It was the same perfume her mom had always worn, and the familiarity of it made her cry harder.