Luci
At 9:30 on the dot, he knocks on my door. “Hey. Cole, I have a surprise for you on my table.” He hugs my leg before running that way.
“Daddy, it’s a magnet book about superheroes!” His ecstatic little voice screams.
“Awesome.” Easton smiles slightly. “I think he’ll toss me over for you.”
“No. Cole thinks you created the world. Come sit.” I’m nervous. I sit facing him on the couch, scraping my nails.
Easton’s fingers wrap around my thumbs immediately. “Luci, it’s ok.”
I nod. “Cole knows part of this story, but not all the details. When I was three, my parents were killed in a car crash on New Year’s Eve.” His hands wrap around mine as I press on. “A woman named Harriet Albers got extremely drunk and escaped the bartender who tried to take her keys. She was going seventy down the
