[Bonus chapter] Your Lies

Ezra 

The last time I saw my father I was nine years old. He had spent two weeks with us to celebrate my ninth birthday. I never really understood the dynamic between my parents growing up. There would be times he would show up and my mother would be so excited to see him that they would be affectionate. 

Then there were times when he would visit and my mother could barely look at him without crying. It always confused me because I never knew what they were. My mother would wear a wedding ring sometimes and sometimes she would not. I was too young to realize what was going on at the time but by the time I got older the situation made a lot more sense. 

He always mentioned that he had to go away for work and when I asked him he would tease me by telling me it was top secret. Sometimes he would be gone for weeks that it stretched out into months. I would probably see him a handful of times throughout a year but it did not make me love him any less.