Samir shook his head, eyes wide. Suddenly he was nothing more than a kid again. A kid that had just heard the best thing someone had told him all month. “I won’t tell anyone, Leo. Not even my mom or auntie or like, even like, David or John or Newt. Oh man, you have to let me see it, Leo, you have to! I freaking love goats! They’re like the best animal in the entire world! The only one I ever got to see was on a field trip and they were like—”
Leo stopped him with a hand on his shoulder. “I will, buddy. Somehow, at some point, but right now you just have to trust me that I can’t.”
Trust, hmm? More than you could do for Gordy.
Leo shook his head to get rid of the thought. “I have to go, Sam. I’m sorry. Bear with me.”
Samir nodded, but his expression was one-hundred-percent doubtful. It w
