Thirteen Years Later, Two Blue Competition Badges Answered Every Question
“Daniel doesn’t know they’re his sons,” Claire said.
“He doesn’t even know they’re competing today.”
Arthur stopped polishing the lenses.
He held them up to the fluorescent light overhead.
“Then who moved our boys into the toughest bracket yesterday morning?” Arthur asked.
“Vanessa,” Claire said.
She described the printed schedule she had just seen in Vanessa’s manicured hands.
It was the exact same grid Arthur had shown her yesterday morning, the one with the handwritten changes in red ink.
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