Chapter 148: Mother and Son Reunion
Nick's POV
She took out her phone. It was the small one, the personal one, not the house phone that she used whenever she was working here. She looked at me steadily. "Are you ready?"
I thought about being ready.
I thought about all the things I'd been carrying since the hospital. The day Mom had come and I'd said the things I'd said to her, the things I'd heard adults say and hadn't understood yet that they were weapons, hadn't understood yet that words were weapons until I'd used them and watched her face and known immediately that I'd used them wrong but hadn't known how to stop using them.
I'd been carrying that day for a long time.
"Yes," I said.
Mrs. Peterson dialed.
I heard it connecting. The sound of a phone call starting, the beeping fi
