I shook his hand as soon as he reached my table. I’d met him twice before. Once at our college graduation and the second time at a Christmas dinner. He looked like he did the last time I saw him. Salt and pepper hair, light blue eyes that crinkled at the sides when he smiled, and a hard stare that could reduce a man into a blubbering mess. “I have to be back at the site by two, son. I can’t stay that long.” He sat down and folded the napkin on his lap and grabbed the menu. “I understand. Thank you for seeing me on such short notice.” So short in fact that I’d called him at five o’clock yesterday and had Claire book me for a red eye. He tilted his head and drank the glass of water with lemon that I’d asked the server to bring for him. “What brings you here?” Cut and dry, this man didn’t beat around the bush. “It’s a long way from California to have lunch.” I drank two glasses of chocolate milk on the plane instead of booze. I wanted to be mellow and be my confident self.
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