Lyla

It wasn’t long before Javier announced to us that we would be taking one of his private planes over to Abu Dhabi, an announcement that had every one of us living in the house excited and nervous all in the same breath.

It had been just a little over two weeks since Nasir had been taken from the hospital, but it already felt like it’d been decades since I’d seen him last, felt him on my chest, and looked into those watery eyes of his as ...