Don't Forget Me Tomorrow(120)

“I got somefing for you, Mommy.”

Dakota choked, her love so fierce as her son placed the ring in her palm. It was unique and every bit as beautiful as Dakota, made of metal I had forged in my shop, and the stone was a Red Tiger’s Eye.

The same color as that knowing gaze that flashed up to me.

Joy pushed so hard at my chest that it overflowed.

She held her palm out to me, and I took the ring so I could slide it onto her trembling finger, and I whispered, “All our todays and all our tomorrows.”



The End