"That isn't true, Bella. Everyone who was killed at that school was never going to blame you for any of it."

She shook her head. "Maybe not physically. But mentally…they would have blamed themselves too. And I know that they would have been disappointed in how little control I'd had over our circumstances," she said honestly.

"They would have expected more from me. They wanted me to make sure that it didn't happen again."

Her father always told her that she was capable. That she could take care of herself, and that she knew what she was doing. She knew that deep down he probably wished that the same thing...