Now she realized something she hadn’t understood until that moment:
Thomas had been preparing for the possibility that he might not always be there to protect her.
And whatever he had arranged, he had done it before anyone else knew about it.
Margaret continued reading.
By the time she reached the final paragraph, she finally understood why the attorney had driven all the way to her little trailer.
The letter wasn’t simply a goodbye.
It was Thomas’s final promise.
The same promise he had made behind the school bleachers in 1973.
Only this time, he had found a way to keep it.
