"How are you doing, Mom?" Alex asked, holding his mother's hand.

As he settled things, Maya assured him she would handle Lucas and take care of whatever he had instructed him and Alisha to manage.

It had been so many days since he last visited his mother, and with Aman's issue still lingering, he couldn't delay any longer.

The time Aman had given him-it had already passed.

He was trying to think things through, to make sense of it all. But before anything happened, he needed to see his ...