MICHAEL

I tell Collins we're picking King up at school and it's a nightmare at his school.

Parents are double parked with Kids running around, teachers waving traffic wardens.

“You’re tense,” Collins says without looking up.

“I’m trying to figure things out,” I reply.

He smirks. “You’re about to pick up your kid with a plan he knows nothing about, then his mother, then drive them to a house she’s never seen. You want me to applaud your calm?”

I exhale slowly.

“I just want this to go right.”

Collins finally looks at me then. “You can’t control how people feel, Michael. I've been your bodyguard and friend for years,...