audacity.
“Put the tape measure away, Harper.”
She sighed.
“Georgia, be reasonable. The stairs are going to be difficult for me once the baby comes. You don’t need all this space by yourself.”
I stepped farther into my room.
“I need exactly the amount of space I earned by paying the mortgage for thirty years.”
Her face changed.
“You are not taking my bedroom,” I continued. “You are not moving my furniture. And if living upstairs doesn’t work for you, you and David should find a ground-floor apartment.”
“David already