He Hid Eleven Years of His Mother’s Invitations in a Cedar Box — and Told Both Sides the Other One Was the Problem
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.