years. They’re too small.”
Dad frowned.
“They are perfectly adequate.”
Luis called to Derek.
“Your father is already ruining the building.”
Derek looked delighted.
And just like that, the Ruiz brothers were arguing about windows after forty years apart.
Mom came beside me.
“Good.”
“You call that good?”
“They’re discussing windows.”
She smiled.
“Not the past.”
Luis stayed involved.
He did not move back to Carmona.
Nobody asked him to.
That was part of what Dad had learned.
Reconnection did not require possession.
Family did not need everyone under one
