His mind hadn’t grasped what had happened yet, but his body had. His body remembered what it was like to be little and sit on her lap; her warm, soft arms; how she had loved him so boundlessly; her gaze on him; that he was the only and most important thing that existed. When that goes away. The person who thinks you are the most important thing that exists. What that does to a person. He took a deep breath and his throat screamed out the exhalation.
