Chapter 6

The elevator doors closed on Theo, and forty minutes later he caught my suitcase at airport security.

“Tell me what the doctor meant.”

I kept my hand on the handle. His fingers covered mine, not hard enough to hurt, but hard enough to remind me that he still believed urgency gave him the right to stop me.

“Let go,” I said.

“No.”

The security line moved around us. A little boy dragged a red dinosaur backpack across the tiles, leaving one plastic foot clicking behind him.

Theo lowered his voice. “Was it cancer? Did Anika tell you something?”

I took…