The man stood quickly.
“I’m sorry. I truly am. I didn’t realize who you were.”
“You didn’t take my seat.” She pointed toward Caleb. “You took his.”
His wife grabbed her purse. “We didn’t realize this would become such a big issue.”
Hayes’s mother looked at her.
“No, you thought you could get away with it when the only people you were dealing with were this boy and his mother.”
The usher had already radioed his supervisor. When she arrived, several people around us immediately confirmed what had happened.
The man looked around as if he expected someone to defend him.
Nobody did.
A few minutes earlier, he’d had the best view in the section. Now the entire section was looking at him.
As staff prepared to escort them away, the man stopped beside Caleb.
Hayes’s mother had already left to prepare for the ceremony, so there was nobody important left for him to impress.
