Sixteen
Lindsay’s suggestion to wait two days before she and Henry talked about him agreeing or not to be Dylan’s godfather had very little to do with a desire to ensure he didn’t make the decision purely on his emotional reaction. Mostly, she’d wanted time to see how he interacted with Dylan and if the boy he’d believed was his son would pull his attention away from Noah.
She leaned over to see around the wall that separated the kitchen in John and Tracie’s house from the living room, spying on her boys. Henry sat with Dylan in his lap, but his focus was entirely on Noah and their intense game of checkers. In the last two days, Henry had drawn a line between Mel, Doug, and Dylan and Lindsay and Noah, and he’d made it very clear to everyone which side he stood on. Regardless, watching He
