rousing memories from Grace’s childhood. She’d come into this house traumatized and grieving. As an adult, Grace could understand and forgive her aunt’s inability to show compassion to a traumatized child. Aunt Elizabeth had been grieving, too, and angry over the circumstances of her sister’s death. But as that child, Grace had lived in constant fear. Not just when she moved in with Aunt Elizabeth, but well before that, when she witnessed her father’s rage, and when her mother taught her to play hide-and-seek. She’d learned to hide from so many things. Was she hiding now?
