create an ugly scene when we return.
Not one of them asked where I planned to sleep that night.
At 8:37, I heard Dad talking to Logan on speakerphone.
Logan asked, “Do you think she’ll keep paying the rent?”
Dad answered confidently.
“She’ll complain, but she always pays.”
Madison laughed.
That laugh removed every remaining doubt.
Dad left at 8:55 wearing a jacket I had bought him for his birthday.
He glanced at the moving boxes.
“I expect everything finished before noon.”
“It will be.”
He smiled because
