SERIS
Six years later…
“Make sure you eat your lunch, it's your favorite,” I said, planting a kiss on Caleb’s forehead. “I love you. Enjoy your trip.”
His amber eyes gleamed up at me, lips curling into a lopsided smile. “I love you too, Mom.”
A familiar ache speared my heart. Caleb was looking more and more like him every day. I smothered the feeling before letting him run to the waiting school bus.
Before he stepped inside, he turned around for a final wave, and I returned the gesture with the best smile I could muster. His first school trip already, and all I could do was stand on the pavement, watching until the big yellow bus finally zoomed out of view.
Slipping into the driver's seat of my car, I gripped the steering wheel and took a deep breath.
Six years in the human t
