I had driven him to school.
I had stayed awake beside him when he had a fever.
I had been there through his nightmares, his scraped knees, his birthdays, and every ordinary moment in between.
Tomás wasn’t biologically my son.
But for five years…
I had been his father.
I met Laura five years earlier.
At the time, she worked in a small home goods store.
I was an electrician, and I had been called in to fix a problem with the wiring.
The first time I saw her, we only spoke for a few minutes.
But I couldn’t stop thinking about her.
So two days later, I returned to the store.
I told her I needed to check the installation again.
The truth was that everything was working perfectly.
Laura figured it out immediately.
