chest tighten when he heard the knock on the door.
Calvin had driven from Washington, D.
C.
, which meant he had taken either a day off or a leave of some kind, and Calvin did not take days off lightly.
Walter opened the door and there they were.
59 combined years of living that had begun in his boiler room.
Marcus had his father’s nothing face on, steady, reading everything, giving nothing.
Darnell looked worried in the way Darnell had always been worried, openly, without armor.
The emotional current of
