It took months before Callum stopped flinching at good news.

But it started there, in the driveway, with a wary boy deciding, against everything he had learned, to get in the car.

Chapter 8 — The Drive

It is a long way to the coast, four hours in the dark with two children asleep in the back and a cedar box buckled into the passenger seat beside you like a person.

I had time, on that drive, to be afraid.