I stood beside the bed, watching the people who had avoided my eyes the previous day fill the room with jokes again.
The birthday surprise I planned never happened the way I imagined.
There was no paper crown and no party at the station.
Instead, I got something far more important.
I got to take my husband home.
And somewhere else in the city, another family got to take their little girl home too.
That evening, I remembered what Tyler had told me before leaving for work.
“Don’t do anything
