After my husband threw me to the floor and broke my leg, my four-year-old daughter used our secret signal and called grandpa for help.

the people who loved me most, I finally understood something.

The strongest person in that house had never been David.

It had been a four-year-old girl in pink pajamas who picked up a phone and refused to let her mother face the darkness alone.

And because of her courage, we all got the happy ending we deserved.