Chapter 90

“Someday there will be someone else,” I told him. “Just not Mathias. Let’s go look at your medals.” He’d won a couple more since I’d last been home.

“Why are you here again?”

“Because.”

“That’s not an answer.”

“Stop saying what Dad says.” I poked him and he laughed.

A couple hours later, I finally called Coach Keller. “I’ll be back tomorrow,” I told him. “I’ll leave here before four.”

“Leave when you need to. Get a good night’s sleep. Take the whole weekend. We can miss a day.”

“We can?”

“There’s no point in training if your head is somewhere else.”