Her eyes were red and swollen from hours of crying.

When she looked up and saw me standing in her doorway, she did not say a single word.

I did not speak either.

I simply walked across the room and dropped to my knees right in front of her, exactly as I had dropped to my knees beside little Leo earlier that morning.

“I should have listened to you from the very beginning, Christina,” I whispered, tears streaming down my face.

Christina looked down at me, her voice trembling.