And in the span of one day, I now had the same worry about his family. They were so easy to like, and I already knew I’d miss them if this was a here today, gone tomorrow kind of thing. “So Chloe tells me you work at the library,” Orion’s mom Diane said to me. I nodded and swallowed the bite of lasagna I’d been chewing. “Just three evenings a week. My full time job is at the Supersaver.” I waited for her head to swivel toward me. Surely she’d wonder what her pro athlete son saw in a woman who worked at the local grocery store. But instead, she smiled at me. “Really, what do you do there? Tim Anderson is a friend of ours. Well, my late husband’s, anyway.” Tim was the store manager at the Supersaver. I didn’t know him very well, but he seemed like a good guy from what I did know. “I work in the bakery.” Diane’s face lit up.
