By the time my parents left, I felt an overwhelming sense of relief for the future. They loved Haven and accepted her as their daughter-in-law. I got along great with her mother. Even Stein no longer thought I had acted in haste and approved of our union.
And it had all come from a horrific case of missing little black girls.
Good had risen from evil.
Somehow love had been birthed from death.
And even my soul had been renewed.
A new faith had come from the darkness.
And I would still fight for good—search out and chase away the monsters. But now Haven would be by my side. And we would be unstoppable.