I sat at the table and ate my food quietly. Mom sat down beside of me and wrapped her arm around me. "It's ok, sweet boy. Everything will be ok. Effie will be ok. She just needs time to grieve, you both do. I know that there's a lot of s**t going on right now. But you need to try to be here for her as much as possible. She doesn't need to feel like she's lost both of her men. Your dad and I were going to go back home, but I think that we'll stay for a little longer. You both need us right now," she told me.
"I know, Mom. And I will be here for her. I'm not going anywhere," I told her. I hated keeping secrets from my mom and Effie. But at the moment it was needed. Bear was right. If someone went looking for him, it needed to look like he was really gone. And the best way to do that was to
