to use utilities in my own house.”
Richard sighed.
“Please don’t say it like that.”
Margaret’s lips curled into a faint, satisfied smile.
Something inside Susan suddenly became calm.
“Did you read the message I sent this morning?”
Another pause.
“Yes.”
“So you knew what she was doing.”
“I knew Mom thought the electric bill was getting too high.”
Susan lowered her voice.
“I pay the electric bill.”
“I know.”
Those two words changed something.
Not because Susan had learned anything she didn’t already know.
But because Richard had just
