Actually nervous.
I wasn’t sure I had ever seen that before.
“I heard you might be here.”
I smiled politely.
“And yet you came anyway.”
He looked away.
Guilty.
Ashamed.
Something.
Then he asked the question.
“The children?”
I almost laughed.
Not because it was funny.
Because it was predictable.
Thirty years of silence.
And suddenly curiosity.
