When he was five, I finally saved enough for us to move into a place with a real bedroom for him. He ran around that tiny apartment like it was a mansion. As he grew, Liam showed a natural talent for fixing things.
When our beat-up old car died, he spent a weekend teaching himself from YouTube videos, scavenging a used alternator from a junkyard, and installing it himself. He was fifteen. That moment changed everything.
The man who’d thrown me out. The man who’d never met him. I didn’t want to go back.Continue reading…