COULD THIS BE TRUE

This chapter is about hesitation and healing—the slow, clumsy steps we take toward trusting again, even when we don’t want to. Chen’s re-entry into Uche’s life is unexpected, complicated, and far from perfect. But sometimes, it’s the imperfect people who help us rediscover parts of ourselves we thought we’d lost forever. Thank you for walking through this part of Uche’s journey with me. She’s not healed yet—but she’s not broken in the same way she was either.