Chapter 15 - Grace Receives Daniel’s Thanks

Grace tried to avoid attention.
She said anyone would have jumped into the pool.
Daniel disagreed.
“Everyone saw him fall. You moved first.”
He gave her a financial reward.
Grace initially refused.
Then Daniel offered something different.
He funded the nursing program she had postponed years earlier to support
her family.
Grace stared at him.
“You remembered?”
“Claire told me.”
Lily smiled.
Her sister had known Grace wanted to become a pediatric nurse.
Grace accepted.
Not as payment for saving Evan.
As a chance to continue the kind of work she had always wanted to do.
Evan gave her a handmade medal.
It was cardboard.
Crooked.
Covered in glitter.
May you like
BEST SWIMMER EVER.
Grace cried harder over that than the tuition.