Daniel has read that phrase three times.
Then he sat down and started crying.
I had never seen him cry like this before.
Michael didn’t come close.
He didn’t try to hug him.
He just stood in front of him.
“I’m not asking you to call me a father,” he said. I’m not asking you anything.
I just wanted you to see me once before I left.
Daniel raises his eyes.
Why do you know where the glasses are?
For the first time, Michael was really smiling.
“Because this apartment was your grandmother’s.
I looked to Daniel.
He seemed as surprised as I was.
“My father told me he bought it after I was born.
– No. This is where you and I grew up. The clock by the window was our father’s. Robert kept it.
Then all the strange things from the previous evening made sense.
