For fifteen years, at every game, he’d scoured the stands for his dad. And disappointment hardened inside him every time, until the hole he’d scooped out of himself to bury the shards of his hope had turned into a canyon that bored right through him. Was Nick a bridge across that canyon? He was filling up all the cracks and crevices where Colton’s hope had withered and died. Or was he an earthquake that would undo him from the inside out? Could he stand it if Nick vanished? If he wasn’t in the stands or in Colton’s life? What if Nick was just another missing face he searched for game after
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