Those were the first words my father spoke as twenty years of fog broke.

I was still on the sidewalk, palms stinging, heart slamming from the truck that had nearly taken both of us.

Lucas cupped my face with hands that had known cold terminals and, before that, a bakery and a little girl’s fever.

His eyes were clear.

The lost look of the foyer was gone.

“You were only ten,” he said, holding me.