close to shame. It passed quick, but it was there.
Then he said the one thing he should’ve said twenty years earlier and somehow made it sound like gravel.
“I didn’t think you’d last.”
Nobody moved.
He rubbed at his forehead with the back of his wrist. “There. You want honesty, Ray? Fine. I didn’t think he’d last. I thought he’d wash out or come back or… continue reading …
