Not Complicated

~Bea~

I had Leo's school bag on my shoulder and his hand in mine, and we were halfway to the front door when the car pulled up.

I stopped.

Kaelen got out.

Yesterday's clothes. No tie. The look of a man who had not slept and had driven here anyway. He walked toward us, and Leo saw him before I could say anything.

He dropped my hand.

"Dad!"

That word hit me before I understood it.

Leo said it the wa