I had stopped right where I was when I had smelt it and though I could hear Cayden calling out to me I ignored him and swiveled my head all around, trying to locate him, the center of all of my fears. My heart was pounding a mile a minute and my senses were in overdrive.
It was as if everything stopped when my eyes landed on him. All noise disappeared, my breathing stopped and I saw nothing but him. The taste of fear in my mouth was disgusting and the ice in my veins was painful.
The only thing that could break me out of this fear induced coma was the voice of my son, of my baby boy, yelling the only thing that I have never wanted to hear.
"Daddy!" Aiden exclaimed. I felt as he pulled his hand from my grip and watched, frozen, as he ran the fifty or so feet to his father, to Manuel. As
