Grayson
The week was slipping by way too fast.
Okay, maybe it was only the third night that Elaine and our daughter were in my family home, but that meant two whole days had already flown by. Paranoid? Probably. But that was how bad I wanted, needed, time to stop.
I was like a kid who thought if he just crossed his fingers had enough, he could get the sun to pause in the sky so he could steal a few more hours to play before he was hauled off to bed.
I needed Elaine here.
"Are you even listening to me?" Gabrielle whined from the other end of the call.
I wasn't. Not even close. Something else had my full attention.
My family.
Yes, the same old family I'd known almost my entire life.
The same one that teased me mercilessly and had given me hell before we left the house over my very
