his jeans.
“Ashley originally wanted you to have two weeks in August.”
“How generous.”
“She wanted September for someone else. I changed it.”
“Why?”
He looked toward the lake.
“Because Dad died in September.”
The anger inside me paused.
“I thought you preferred coming here then. You always said the lake was quieter after Labor Day.”
“It is.”
“So I told Ashley you wouldn’t mind.”
There are explanations that make something understandable without making it acceptable.
This was one.
“I told myself I was giving you the time you liked
