She watches from the quiet beyond, where love outlives pain.

Her daughter walks clean now — no lies, no cheating — only truth.

The guilt remains, and rightly so, a shadow she chose to carry.

But change came, real and hard-won.

The mother is proud — not because it erases the past, but because it honors it.

“I’ll be waiting,” she thinks, warmth in her voice like before.

And this time, her daughter won’t look away.