We’ve been driving around the neighborhood since eight.”

“I’m in a rental apartment, Brandon,” I said.

“By the water.”

“What rental apartment?

Why would you rent some little place forty miles away when your whole six-bedroom home is right here on Lakeview Drive?”

“I needed somewhere quiet,” I said.

He let out a long breath that buzzed through the little phone speaker.

“Look, Dad, we got off on the wrong foot yesterday afternoon.