She Took Me to the Hallway to Explain My “Place”

James stepped in.

“I saw Martin come back here,” he said. “What’s going on?”

No one answered right away.

Then Carol, probably because she had the least patience for family nonsense, said, “We’re short one point eight million on the match.”

James blinked.

“For tonight?”

Martin nodded.

James looked at his mother first. Habit. Then at me.

And because he knows continue reading …