Chapter 717

• They’d done way too many things they regretted. It was beyond counting now, and all of it had hardened into knots in their hearts. If Joshua wouldn’t forgive them, then they had to learn to forgive themselves.
• Shirley Fraser knew she’d had no choice back then, but even so, thinking like this still felt shameless as hell.
• The guilt didn’t ease, not one bit. And because they kept bringing it up, it stabbed at the heart like needles every time.