The Reality of Everything (Flight & Glory, #5)

by Rebecca Yarros

My house. It wasn’t really mine, though, was it? It was his. Bought with money I’d never wanted from something I’d spent nights praying would never happen.

Complicated grief happens when your rational mind has accepted the loss, but your emotional mind hasn’t quite gotten there. It keeps you stuck in that first, sharp, acute stage of grief and doesn’t let you move forward.”

I hadn’t even prayed that he’d come home like he promised for the fear that God would notice that I still existed and then take Jackson, too.