My fingers stopped moving on the duffel strap.
She’s not family, so we don’t involve her in estate planning. Like I was an awkward tax situation. Nobody defended me.
Not Chloe, not Marcus, not the Sterings. I heard silverware clink against China. Someone asked for more pinn noir. Then Marcus laughed and said, “Ellanena is more comfortable blowing things up than managing assets.” Anyway, that got a bigger laugh.
Which was funny because two months earlier, I’d supervised a 12.8 million military infrastructure operation without losing a single soldier
