Ava's P.O.V
Thomas was more to me than some child I was fostering. He was my child. In the short time Jem and Thomas were with us, I learned to love him as my own. One doesn't need to birth a child to love the child and that's how I felt. I would go to the ends of the earth for each child that is in my care...
Day by day, as the days turned to weeks and weeks turned to months, I fell in love with him. Now I had to stand by and watch as policemen struggled to restrain him. It is something no mother should see, something no mother should go through and the saddest thing about it was that I couldn't even comfort him.
I tried to move closer to him to take him in my arms and tell him that everything was going to be okay. I wanted him to know that I was here for him and that I loved him, but
