“She’s right. I have decided that protecting this place is worth more than anything else. I have let Fairhaven wrap its arms around me, because nothing ever has before. But something isn’t good just because it wants me, is it? Gram’s not better than Mom. Her, kneeling in front of me, calling me her own – that’s just the other side of the coin. One day, I told myself, one day you’ll have to let go. Maybe that’s now.”
