Chapter 26Wills returned home with his father, and I was sorry to see how worn Jack looked.
“Would you like a cup of coffee, Jack?”
“No thanks.” He looked from JR to Pat. “May I have the use of a room?”
“Sure. You know where the guestroom is.” Wills had taken him on a tour of the apartment, and his father, being an architect, appreciated the details.
“John Robert, Patrick, if you’ll come with me?”
JR gulped and sent a nervous glance toward his brother. From what Wills had told me, the only time JR’s full name was used was when he was in trouble.
Pat was pale, his lips in a tight line, and his Adam’s apple bobbed as he swallowed repeatedly.
They followed Jack down the hallway to the room that used to be Paul’s but which we used as a guestroom now, although come to think of it, we had
