CHAPTER 36
UNEXPECTED VISIT
I need to get to the bottom of this. Johnson rang the doorbell. He stood in front of a modest single-storey brick veneer house not far from where he lived. While Johnson waited, he wondered if there was more to Eddie’s story. He couldn’t absolve him completely of his responsibility of his leaving when he was five, but his mother had a hand in the situation too. She had deprived him of having a father growing up, and somehow he had to come to terms with that.
Eddie swung open the door with a surprised look on his face. “Johnson, I wasn’t expecting you . . . ever, in fact.” He looked past him and towards the road. “You need to leave. We can’t talk here. My family will be home soon.”
“You haven’t told your family about me, have you?”
He smiled with uncertainty
