Chapter 45

“You’re right, I do. If I hadn’t stayed away so long for my own selfish reasons, I would have seen the trouble coming and taken Danny with me, but hindsight is twenty-twenty. Let’s talk about something else. I don’t want to ruin my good mood by speaking about my parents.”

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Johnny was in a hurry to get into the house. He wanted to make love to Caden to show him how he felt so that maybe he would remember that tomorrow after he told him the truth. There was little comfort in the fact that he hadn’t lied to him because in his heart, he knew he had told a lie of omission.

They went through the garage into the mudroom where Caden and Johnny left their boots. Caden took Johnny’s hat and gloves and laid them on the washing machine to dry out. He took off his jacket and gloves and helped Johnny out of his coat and hung it in the hall closet.

“I’m going to start a fire,” Caden told him.