Right. Thanks.”
I said nothing.
He had no idea the word was there.
A few minutes later, he fell asleep.
I lay beside him, listening to his breathing while the letters on his back seemed to glow in the darkness.
For almost an hour, I tried to come up with an innocent explanation.
Maybe his coworkers had played a prank.
Perhaps he had fallen asleep beside a hotel pool and someone had written it as a joke.
Maybe there really had been a beach near his conference hotel.
But Grant
