Chapter 28Tom Alan returned to an empty hotel room. He was a little bit surprised that his otousan wasn’t sitting on the foot of his bed, waiting for him. Maybe he’s sitting on the foot of Erika’s. He waited for some yelling. None started. He emptied his pockets onto the dresser before getting ready for bed. Erika’s cell. She’d handed it to him to fiddle with the battery. It was always cutting out on her. He fiddled, and within a second, he had found the issue. He turned on the phone to make sure, and there, as Erika’s screensaver, was a picture of redheaded Bill and his handsome hockey-brute smile.
Tom Alan got nosy after that. He read a few texts between Erika and Bill. There weren’t many. All of them within the past week. Erika announcing she and Tom Alan would be in New York, asking B
