Chapter 239: Big Feelings

OLLIE

I pressed my face against the car window as we drove through the city streets toward the hospital, watching the buildings blur past while my stomach twisted with feelings I didn't know how to name. Riley sat in the seat next to me, staring out his own window like he always did now, and I wanted to shake him until he looked at me instead.

Everything had been so confusing for so long. First Mama took me away in the middle of the night when it was raining really hard, and I thought I'd never see Daddy again. I remembered watching him standing in the...