I Won a Five-Star Island Vacation

and kicked upward hard enough that my lungs burned.

When we broke the surface, he clung to my neck so tightly I could barely breathe.

I carried him to the edge.

Two staff members were already there. One helped pull him out. Another wrapped him in towels.

Leo coughed and sobbed against me.

“I told him no,” he cried. “I told him no.”

“I know,” I whispered.continue reading …