Chapter 16 - A Peaceful Afternoon Gardening With My Brave Son
Back home in Connecticut, the drama of the courtroom felt like a distant nightmare on another planet.
Leo knelt beside Julian in the backyard garden, wearing a miniature pair of yellow gardening gloves.
He carefully pressed tomato seeds into the rich brown soil, his hearing aid blinking with a steady green light.
“Are these gonna grow big like trees, Daddy?” Leo asked, looking up with bright, curious eyes.
“The biggest tomatoes in the whole neighborhood, champion,” Julian smiled, wiping a smudge of dirt off Leo’s nose.
The sun warmed their backs as a gentle autumn breeze rustled the colorful leaves overhead.
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There were no locked doors, no forged documents, and no hidden enemies lurking in the shadows.
Just a father and his little boy building a simple, honest life together from the ground up.
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