Whispers of the Heart
His little arms went right around my legs and if I hadn’t grabbed the railing, I am pretty sure he would have knocked me backwards.
I sat down on the hard, unforgiving metal and pulled him into my arms, loving that little cookies and dirt smell that felt like home. I closed my eyes and just breathed it in, forcing down my emotions. It had only been twenty-four hours since I last saw him but it seemed longer than that, much longer.
I pulled back, giving him a big grin. “I’ve missed you, buddy.”
“I missed you, too, Rory. Guess what?”
“What?”
He leaned over to whisper, “Daddy has a girlfriend now.” But he completely missed the mark and it didn’t come out as a whisper at all, making both Sherry
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