“Roy, I don't know,” I whispered, still looking at my son and Malia who had not realized my presence. “I don't want to steal this joy away from him, I don't want my being around him to seem as a burden,” I said not knowing that my hands were shaking until he held me.
“It's okay to have second thoughts,” Roy whispered and I looked into his eyes. “It's okay to have doubts but it's not okay to give up. Your son is just several meters away and you have not come this far to go back without saying a word to him, it has to be now, you cannot let this opportunity pass,” he said.
“Isn't that the young boy you are talking about?” Theo chimed in.
“Yes he is,” I brushed the clusters of tears around my eyelid and then walked past Roy towards Malia and Mason.
I was still approaching when Malia notic
