FAMILY SECRET: CLAIMING MY FATHER'S TOY
Whatever she finds makes her exhale slowly and nod.
"Okay," she says. "You're good."
"I told you," I say.
"You tell me lots of things from very far away," she says. "I needed to see your face."
Lucas appears behind her, carry-on in hand, patient and easy, the kind of person who exists in a room without requiring it to reorganize around him. He shakes my hand and says simply, "She talked about you the whole flight," and Jess says, "I slept for two hours," and he says, "You talked in your sleep too," and I like him immediately and completely.