Isabella watched the moving company transfer the last few pieces of her furniture into the truck to be taken to storage. With Michael out of the picture she had become very close to her mother again and had decided to stay with her for a few months, during the summer anyway. When school started in the fall, she would decide what she wanted to do then.

She and her mother, after enduring so many traumas separately, wanted the support each could lend the other, especially as the ...