Vaughn’s eyes widened. “You didn’t seem to have any interest. You never mentioned anything to me if you did.”
Lyle took a breath and responded as wistfully as he could manage without it sounding overdone. “I guess I had other things on my mind back then.”
“So now you do? Have an interest, I mean?” Vaughn took a sip from his coffee cup. His face was a constantly changing whirl of emotion: panic, relief, concern, confusion. “For what? What would you study?”
Lyle’s mind blanked. He’d had no idea he was even going to broach the subject, and now had no clue which path to take next. He flicked his eyes around the room looking for anything that might help him, and when his gaze fell on Randy’s graduation picture, he said the first thing that came to mind. “Law.”
“Law?” Vaughn barked, his voic
