Mark called that evening.

He said a potential client had kept him in a meeting and that he simply couldn’t leave.

I told him Tommy had looked for him.

There was a pause long enough for me to hear office voices in the background.

“I’ll make it up to him,” he said.

“Don’t promise a special weekend unless you can keep it.”

Mark sounded irritated.

“You don’t need to supervise how I parent.”