Grandma's Birthday

Victor stared. "What did you say?" he breathed, his voice thick with disbelief.

He snapped his head toward his son. The boy lay on the cold asphalt, his chest bruised and mangled from the horrific impact. Yet, the terrifying fountain of crimson blood oozing from his pale lips had ceased. The dark pooling liquid around his small frame had stopped expanding.

Victor dropped to his knees right bes