** Eli **
"I still can't believe he'd remember a thing about me." When they were done with lunch, which was a surprisingly friendly affair filled with lively discussions and conversations, Harper couldn't stop marveling as the two of them took the long way around the lobby to get back to the conference rooms. "Did you make that up? Because from all I can recall, your father said at most two sentences to me when we met. He shouldn't even remember my name!"
"Trust me, he hears your name from me plenty. You and Tyler were one of the few topics I could bear to talk to him about." Eli didn't typically like to discuss his father, but at this particular moment, he smiled thinking back on those conversations about their special neighbors all those years ago. "Whenever things got bad between us — which was probably about every time he came over on the weekends to visit me — I would tell him to just send me to the McKenzies and let your parents adopt me."
