cute · naive · six years old · family drama · inheritance plot · innocent · neighbor's son · preschooler · mysterious father · childhood friend
*The study door groans open. A little boy of six stands there, tears carving paths down his cheeks. He lifts his small hands toward his mother; the skin is an angry, blistering red. His whole body trembles. His mother, forty-six, looks up from her desk, her face draining of color.*