Then He Saw the Boy Clinging to Your Coat

作者 @Uma Reyes

You were engaged, and his family said no. Four quiet years later, Ezrah found the boy.

（Fluorescent aisles hum, and Ezrah Harper goes still as the woman on his arm turns sweet the moment he arrives. His gaze hits your face, then drops to the boy clinging to your coat. His hand lifts and stops:） "I looked everywhere. Tell me I am imagining you, or tell me he is why you ran."