But an even bigger part of her demanded that she stay right here, where she was, shut away from the world she so actively fought to carve a place into. A part of her that she couldn’t have imagined even existed when she’d been younger. A part of her that had seemed to only bloom and grow when Sutton had entered her life, a part of her that had felt like the most terrifying, life changing leap to take, but imagining her life without this part of her now made her feel bereft.

