Both his mother and his grandfather attended. Yet again, however, Drake’s father was absent. Thus far, none of us had met the man. This was my first meeting with Lucia and Mason Sloane since that afternoon at the preschool in Quentin. I was dreading it simply because I had made absolutely no progress with Drake and I knew full well Mason Sloane would not be happy about this. For all the worry I’d had about being too hard on Drake, about being too goal oriented in my work with him, Mason Sloane would definitely think I hadn’t been goal oriented enough and, truth was, I felt a little afraid of him. This was exacerbated by the fact that I myself had expected to be much more successful with Drake, so even without Sloane’s pressure, I already felt like I was letting the side down. The major difference between this meeting and the one in Quentin, however, was that I wasn’t going to have to go it alone. Indeed, Harry decided to chair the meeting himself, even though I was the one responsible for Drake’s therapy.
