One Shift, One Night
After thirty-six months, Leo and Maya smelled permanently of sweet vanilla and warm yeast, a sweet, comforting scent.
"Mama! Look! Massive truck!"
Three year old Leo Olson pressed his small face entirely against the glass of our low-set living room window, his little fingers leaving a row of smudge marks on the pane.
He was a small, wire framed dynamo of energy, possessed of his aunt’s athletic build and a thick mop of dark, wavy hair that refused to stay flat no matter how much water I combed through it.
But it was his eyes that made my heart stutter every single morning. They weren't brown like mine, or soft blue like Katherine’s. They were a piercing, crystalline, icy blue ones.
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