Chapter 29

“I’m just a bit taller than you, Henry,” Tom said, “so I should probably follow you up.”

“Gotcha.”

The two of them picked the chair up and carefully carried it, and Noah, up the long flight of steps. Noah’s mother followed, carrying Noah’s travel kit and the paperwork that Tom had handed her.

In their bedroom, he said, “Do you want to get undressed?”

“Not right now,” Noah said. “I’ll just lie down like this for a bit.”

“Okay, then I’ll leave you with your mom. William is waiting in the car to take me to a drugstore so I can get your prescriptions filled and pick up bandages and stuff.”

“I’ll wait here in case I’m needed for anything, if you don’t mind,” Henry said.

“No problem, and thanks.”

When he returned to the town house with the medicine and supplies, he found Noah sitting at the small table in the corner of their bedroom enjoying a bowl of soup and a glass of tea.

“Somebody must be feeling a bit better,” he said.