But she stopped me. “I had to fight back,” she told me. “Now he knows. Now he knows it will never go unanswered again.” And I pulled her into me, squeezing her so tight. She was like us. I would say the exact same thing, and even though I hated to risk losing her, she wasn’t a flower. And now I understood why Michael let Rika be at his side in everything they did. She wanted to feel this, too.
