I stepped closer, my hand brushing his shoulder. “Because you’re my son. That’s not something you ever let go.”
He nodded and let me pull him in. He was taller than me now, broad through the shoulders, nothing like the little boy I’d last held in my kitchen doorway. But when his arms came around me, something inside me recognized him instantly.
But I knew this wasn’t the end of anything —it was the beginning. Fifteen years couldn’t be undone in a single moment.
