The Seat They Never Saved and the Offer I Finally Took novel · Chapter 19 of 24

Chapter 19: The Video Goes Around

Ivy was holding her phone out in front of her.

I stood in the workshop doorway in Tobias's flannel shirt and my own boots, with hair that told the whole story of the night.

Tobias came up behind me, blinking.

"What time is it?"

"Six," Ivy said. "Nine million people have watched this."

"Nine million what?"

"Look."

She turned the screen toward me.

It was Gate B31.

It was the gray light of the concourse, and Connor's back, and a night I had already lived once.

The camera was low and shaky, and the sound was perfect.

It had caught what I'd never heard from outside, which was how small my own voice was.

"Did the desk really run out of blankets?"

The caption was white letters on the bottom.

Well, that's something.

I knew that voice, and I knew that caption.

"The woman with the paperback," I said.

"She posted it at four a.m." Ivy scrolled. "Her granddaughter runs her account. It has eleven million views now. People are calling him Sandwich Connor."

"They know his name?"

"Somebody in the comments went through his social media in about forty minutes. It's the quarter-zips, apparently. People cannot get over the quarter-zips."

My mother appeared in the yard in her robe and snow boots.

She had her reading glasses on and a tablet under her arm.

"I've been up since five," she announced. "The neighbor's wife called. I'm reading the comments."

"Mom, don't."

"She's got a good voice for them." Ivy pulled the tablet closer. "Go on."

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