Chapter 20The bank representative’s name turned out to be Carl, Carl Bruno. When Dad called him Mr. Bruno while questioning Macon Charter’s stance on human rights, Carl suggested Dad call him that. I must have been too nervous to pay attention during the introductions, since I’d never even gotten the Mr. Bruno part. Carl never denied what had gone on in the past. He did, however, promise, just as Eric Spidderman had said, that things were different now.
Cloud-ia looked quite uptight when the word gay came up several times, almost as uptight as I felt, even though no one ever said it in the same sentence as “Reed.” I kept expecting Devon to, but then I realized, as he basically sat there still enough to be one of the statues in the hotel foy-ay, I had probably made him too scared by my out
