Chapter Eleven
Callan
The faces at that dinner table were all smiles, and it was obvious that all of us thought that Sage should take the job and move back home. Everyone except Sage. The one person who had to agree to it or nothing would happen.
With dinner over, we all got up, carried our things to the kitchen, and helped Cathy clean up. Then River, Sage, and I headed out to the backyard with a football. The sun had set but they had a floodlight, which had come on, lighting up the area enough for us to play a bit.
“See the laces, River?” I put my fingers between them and showed him what I was doing. “You hold the ball like this.”
He took it as I handed it to him and tried to make his much smaller fingers fit in between the thick lines. “You made it look easier than it is for me, Unc
