But it was worse than potentially setting the house on fire, because he was pretty sure that what he’d forgotten to do was clear his search history. He paced around the pool, trying to remember exactly how the morning had played out. He’d been so humiliated by Buck’s mention of his workout regime that the second Ravi left for SAT prep, Teo ran upstairs to his room to do more dad searching, this time starting with something broader. Obviously, other people had searched for their biological fathers, and maybe Teo was trying too hard to reinvent the wheel. It wasn’t long before he’d looked at the clock and found that he was going to be late for work if he didn’t get his crap together. He’d left as quickly as humanly possible, and he really couldn’t remember if he’d closed out his search or not. He was so desperate for his mom or the girls not to see it that he almost considered calling Jane and asking her to close up the tabs for him. But then Jane would ask questions—questions Teo didn’t want to answer.
