CHAPTER TEN
June 30, 2010
Morning
Money granted Calvin freedom, freedom that Cleo didn’t want him to have. She’d confiscated the remaining funds from their mother, worried by the cost of their taxi ride, certain that she knew better how to spend it. Calvin congratulated himself on his quick thinking at the airport curbside. It had become his freedom protection plan.
After breakfast, he made a furtive call for a cab from the upstairs line. The warnings from Percy’s letter and Mrs. Seabrook’s speech seemed theatrical and flimsy when Calvin thought of them now, in light of the horrible news about his father’s reappearance.
If Martin was back on the scene, Calvin had to take action, and fast. Natalie seemed to know a little about the door, but she was still just a kid and probably had to
