Chapter 41 Brat Ii

• “No. Just curious,” he replied. More lines etched on Dad’s forehead. His dad looked more in his late forties than his early sixties, and Calvin knew a large part of that had to do with his happy marriage. “So?”
• “I just knew,” his father murmured. That wasn’t good enough for him, but he didn’t know how to seek more information without giving himself away. “There were so many things, really. But the first thing that drew her to me was her kindness. Do you know Leilani means heavenly flower?”
• Dad bore that smile he always had when talking about his wife. Calvin nodded. He knew because his father had spent most of his childhood telling him about it. They had albums of two of them at different phases.