Bonus Chapter I

Silver puddles glistened on the street outside from the window where I sat, school children walked down the street with their raincoats still draped on as the road and pavement ahead shone in silver. Kaleb cooed, leaning over to touch my face and I laughed before brushing back his hair and shifting in my seat by the window.

He leaned over again and reached up to touch me but I held him steady and kept staring out the window while he sat back in my lap.

"Soon you'll be going to school like those children outside," I told him and smiled. "I'll be watching you come home."

Kerrick and I bought a beautiful house together in a very nice neighborhood, though a little bigger than our last one because we had to think of our growing boy. It had cream-colored walls and a comfy interior, each room exuding warmth. We had only been living here for the past few months but I'd already developed a great love for this place.

"School?" Kerrick said coming from another room. "He has plenty more growin