Chapter TwoTime had flown since high school, but it didn't feel like twenty years. That's how long it had been, though, and the proof was that Paul Elliott, a successful African American lawyer, and a partner at a big firm in Chicago, was attending his twenty-year high school reunion. Seated next to him was Evelyn Rogers, an African American college math professor, whom he had met in college in Ohio. They had lost contact after graduating but years later had reunited, following the tragic deaths of their respective spouses. Now they were essentially engaged, lacking only the ring and the formal proposal.
Paul's wife had been killed by a drunk driver while she and he were jogging one evening in their Hyde Park neighborhood. A year later Evelyn's estranged husband, a heavily indebted busine
