Everyone in That House Was Counting on Him Never Walking Again. He Was Hiding the Fact That He’d Started To

But he could stand now, for short stretches, braced on a heavy walker.

On the morning of the meeting, Justin gave him the lecture.

“You are not going in there to prove something reckless to anyone.

If you feel even a little dizzy, you sit down.

I’m not a doctor, but today I’m bossier than one.” It made me laugh, and it was the first time I’d ever seen Garrett look nervous.

We reached the headquarters just before nine — a glass tower I recognized, because Trevor had described it to me a hundred times as a height I could never hope to reach.

Now I was crossing its marble lobby, pushing the wheelchair of the man who ran the whole building.