CONNOR
I didn’t expect to spend the whole night at my parents’ with tears pricking at my eyes.
And yet …
Everything was going so well, I couldn’t help but get my eyes moist.
Evan was running around the house with his cousins, grinning all the way to his ears despite the frequent tumbles that made my and his mother’s hearts stop, learning all the tricks and tips on how to be the worst-behaved kid from the others and being gushed over by all of my family: he had first been a little wary of my mother’s expansive personality (just like Lily, years before, had been), and had instantly clicked with my father’s more reserved and quiet attitude. For some reason, he didn’t like his uncle Fred, Amanda’s mate, which was a mystery to me, since he was the brother-in-law with whom I got along the
