My phone keeps ringing. It’s been ringing for the better part of a week now. I know it’s Jeff every time it goes off. I have it on vibrate, but it still makes me jump. I haven’t listened to any of the forty-five messages he’s left me, but I have read a few of his texts.

He wants to know what I think he should do. I think that’s ironic. Maybe a little crazy. He wants my advice regarding the offer Braxton has made him. He hasn’t given me the details of the offer, and I haven’t asked Braxton about it because he hasn’t mentioned it to me himself. While...