ago,” Chris told him.
“That was a different ten.”
Then the camera found us.
The giant screen.
The announcement.
And Ray.
I knew Ray from the hospital.
He worked in facilities and always seemed to appear whenever Ethan needed a light repaired, a television reset, or someone willing to argue about football.
Ethan called him “Coach Ray.”
Ray insisted his official title was “Commissioner.”
They’d been arguing about it for months.
Ethan also had one ridiculous rule: nobody who entered his room was allowed to simply watch.
If you stood