to talk like adults at the dinner table,” I reminded her.
Her voice suddenly softened in a way that disturbed me far more than her screaming had.
“Paige, your father is going to completely fall apart mentally if he loses his family home.”
I stood by the large window, looking through the glass at her silhouette beside the SUV outside the steel barrier.
“Then maybe you shouldn’t have ordered the actual legal owner to leave the house forever.”
A heavy silence stretched across the line.
For the first time in
