Learning to Stand Again
Chapter 13 - Learning to Stand Again
Ava’s rehabilitation lasted months.
She learned to transfer from bed to chair, then to stand between parallel bars.
The first time she put weight through her injured pelvis, fear returned before pain.
The railing.
The open air.
Tyler’s hands.
Her therapist, Lena Ortiz, did not tell her to be brave.
“Tell me when to stop,” Lena said.
Ava took one step.
Then another.
The newspapers wanted photographs of the heiress learning to walk after her brother tried to kill her.
Ava refused.
Rehabilitation was not public evidence.
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She had already given investigators what they needed.
Her body belonged to recovery, not promotion.
