after. I hate leaving her to do this without me.”
I covered my mouth.
Adrian’s voice became rougher.
”I asked my friend Thomas to help me with something after I’m gone. I wanted you to have one sign every year that someone was thinking about you. Not enough to spoil you. Just enough that on your birthday, no matter what else life was doing, you would know you were being remembered.”
Adrian blinked hard.
”I knew I would not get to watch you grow up. I knew there would be
