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  “Mommy!” My son, Sage, comes running up to me and wraps his arms around my legs.

  I hug him back. “Hey, Bud. Did you have a good day today?” I say as I sign him out of the aftercare program at his school.

  “Yes, ma’am. I made you this.” He shoves a coloring page at me.

  “Wow, that looks awesome. What is that?” I point to a brown blob on the paper. Please don’t say shit, please don’t say shit. I’m pretty good about watching my mouth around him but I slip sometimes and he seems like my little repeater. When we lived with my brother, he wasn’t always the greatest about watching his words either. He’d say things like, “I gotta shit, get out of the bathroom.” I’m afraid he’s going to repeat one of those words at school.

  “A football.” He looks at me so innocently proud. “I’m gonna be a football player when I grow up.”

  Bless his heart, he doesn’t know the personal Hell that brings me. “Don’t you want to play baseball or something else?”

  I start walking us in the direction of our car after I help him with his backpack.

  He nods his head. “Yeah, that too, or a fireman.” He’s acting so grown and serious, like he needs to make this decision today at the ripe old age of five.

  I breathe a sigh of relief. “Sounds good to me, Bud. What do you want for supper tonight?”

  “Mac ‘n cheese with hot dogs.”

  I laugh. “You always say that.” Which I hate saying is good since I’m on a tight budget.

  He giggles. “I know. I always want it.”

  I reach down and tickle him. “You’re rotten. You know that?” He climbs in his booster seat and buckles his seatbelt.

  He looks up at me and smiles. All I feel is his love. “Yep, I know I am.”

  After I get in my seat, I look back and remember the lady from the local pizza place gave us all a gift certificate the other day when she was in. I never buy pizza. Sometimes when they have a sale on frozen ones, I get those, but not straight from the restaurant. “How about pizza tonight instead of mac ‘n cheese and hot dogs?”

  He grins and pumps his fist. “Yes!”

  I nod. “All right, pizza it is.”

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  Table of Contents

  Prologue

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Chapter Fourteen

  Chapter Fifteen

  Chapter Sixteen

  Chapter Seventeen

  Chapter Eighteen

  Chapter Nineteen

  Chapter Twenty

  Epilogue

  About the Author

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