Chapter 9
Guilt was a funny thing. Lucy Rackley’s breakdown was exactly what she needed to begin healing. She admitted she felt responsible for her son’s death, thinking she could have done something to keep him alive. That coupled with the loss of her husband years before—Tru’s father had died of a heart attack when the boys were small—and Lucy had shut down. After speaking with her doctor and a therapist, she decided to enter a residential therapy program. Tru drove her to Burlington, then stayed a few days after she checked in to make sure she got settled. By all accounts, in the three weeks she’d been there, she was making a lot of progress.
But now guilt had Tru firmly in its grip. He blamed himself for not seeing it sooner, for not trying harder to get her to seek help. For chasing
