“Kim, I need to tell you something.” I hugged the wool blanket wrapped around me a little tighter. “Okay . . .” “No matter what happens . . . if we have to leave, I promise that I’ll come back for you. I would never leave you here alone, and I won’t just leave without telling you. So, if I disappear because something happens to me, I just need you to know how important you are and that I wouldn’t abandon you.”
