Emma stared at him.

“For once in your life?”

She paused.

“Nothing fast.”


After a long silence, she finally spoke.

“You can see them.”

Nathan looked up.

“Five minutes.”

His heart stopped.

“But they’re sleeping.”

He nodded.

“And you don’t talk.”


The boys’ room glowed beneath a moon-shaped nightlight.

Ethan slept sideways across the bed.

End of story — Part 3 of 3