My Son Brought His New Boyfriend Home—The Moment I Saw the Pendant Around His Neck, I Called the Police

“Where are you?”

Gabriel answered.

“Home.”

“Do not disappear again.”

“I won’t.”

The sentence meant almost nothing after twenty-one years.

Still, I needed to hear it.

PART 9 — LIAM’S QUESTION

Liam took the phone.

“Dad.”