Chapter 5 - The Mother He Never ExpectedTyler stepped toward the duffel bag.
Clara immediately pulled Leo behind her.
“Don't.”
Her voice was barely audible.
Tyler reached for the bag.
“You're staying here.”
Clara shook her head.
“No.”
The word was small.
But it was the first time she had said it without apologizing.
Tyler froze.
“No?”
Clara looked directly at him.
“We're leaving.”
Something changed in her face.
Fear remained.
But underneath it was something stronger.
A mother's determination.
Tyler lunged.
His hand reached toward the bag.
And Eleanor moved.
She stepped directly between them.
Tyler stopped so abruptly that his boot scraped across the tile.
“Mom.”
Eleanor spread her arms.
“Move.”
“No.”
His eyes widened.
“Mom, move.”
“I said no.”
For sixty-four years, Eleanor had been afraid of losing her son.
Tonight she became more afraid of losing her grandson.
“Let them go, Tyler.”
The words hung in the kitchen like a gunshot.
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Tyler stared at her in disbelief.
His own mother had become the wall he could not break.
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