My son hung his head, his voice so quiet it was barely a buzz. "Mom...you...you know everything?"
I jabbed a finger at his face, then at the dull black phone lying on the table. Rage coiled so tight in my chest I couldn't get a single word out for a long moment.
Turned out there was no magic app that could summon a man out of thin air. It was just a dumb little program Kevin had cobbled together while learning coding at school.
The real app didn't have that feature at all. He'd been the one pulling the strings behind the scenes this whole time.
He told me that when he was away at school, I was the only thing he couldn't stop worrying about.
He knew I'd been lonely ever since his dad died, living alone as a widow. He was scared I'd break down from keeping everything bottled up, and eve
