“That’s where you have it wrong, Dakota. You can. I expect you to call me. Whatever you need. And there is no such thing as too much when it comes to you. Do you understand?” The words left me like a tumble of stones. A plea and a demand. Because I’d wanted to give her everything I had, but the only thing I had been able to do was give her the one gift that I could. She viewed it as a debt. Like something she needed to repay. She could never understand that what I’d given her was my heart.
