His Brother's Gift
Starlight, Alaska Early April Will Rubens sank to the kitchen chair and stared at the phone on the counter.
Dennis was…dead? Impossible. His brother lived in Central America. He was busy saving lives….
A hazy image of a tall, blond man with glasses magnifying his brown eyes was all Will's brain conjured. Dennis, the last day they had seen each other face-to-face three years ago down in Washington state. Jeez, Dennis.
Will eyed the phone. The woman from Honduras had left three messages in the past hour. Urgent messages for him to call her. But he'd been with Josh, hitting fly balls, practicing for the upcoming Little League season.
Will didn't blame the kid for the missed calls. Josh needed a big brother in Will and, truth be known, Will needed the boy. The eleven-year-old eased the decade of guilt Will carried because, if he'd been more disciplined in his actions, Elke and Dennis might have stayed in Alaska. Now three phone messages stamped another bruise over those his heart had accumulated. If the woman was right, what remained of his family was gone.
Gone as if they had never existed.
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