The abandonment Caleb had built his whole hardened self around had never been abandonment at all.

It had been a father drowning in sorrow, loving his son from beneath the water, unable to surface.

And when Caleb finally understood that, the anger had nothing left to stand on, and it set itself down, and a wounded child, at fifty, was at last, quietly, allowed to grieve a father who had loved him the whole time.

Chapter 20 — Your Masterpiece Lives On

Six months later, The Oak Tailor officially reopened its doors.