CHAPTER 8
BENJAMIN
Benjamin had only volunteered for his boarding school’s summer-long mission trip to escape his father. Enduring a three-hour flight to Ohio in a cramped middle seat was better than what he might do if he stayed home.
“You’re swole. You don’t need me there now,” his big brother had insisted when he called to explain his last-minute decision to spend the holiday break partying with his college teammates as opposed to coming back home to South Boston.
If he’d seen the bruise forming on his younger brother’s face, Benjamin’s brother might not have said that.
Absence was supposed to make the heart grow fonder. You’d think Benjamin’s time away at the boarding school he attended on a hockey scholarship would have given his father some perspective.
But no, it was the same
