handled yesterday badly.”
“Yesterday?”
He looked down.
“And maybe the years before that.”
Vanessa shifted beside him.
“I did too.”
I looked at her.
She swallowed.
“I thought you were jealous of me.”
“Why?”
“Because Mom and Dad were always talking about my house, my cars, David’s income.”
“I wasn’t jealous.”
“I know that now.”
“No,” I said. “You know I have money now. That’s different.”
She started to answer, then stopped.
Dad looked uncomfortable.
“Rachel, can we discuss Northeast?”
Several yards behind me, Elena suddenly became very interested in
