Spring arrived. One afternoon, Ethan stood in the Carter apartment doorway holding a school registration form. Whitmore Academy. Scholarship program.
Annie looked at him. “Are you sure this is okay? ”
Ethan crouched. “Your dad believed broken things deserve a second chance.
Families do, too. ”
That night, Annie placed both watches side by side on the small table near the window. Samuel’s watch and Ethan’s. Two different lives, finally connected by the one thing that had been missing all along.
The truth.