Children had a strange ability to make complicated adults simple for a moment.
Then she sat.
I placed the lease correspondence before her.
Her face changed.
“You found that.”
“Yes.”
Rowan leaned forward.
“What is it?”
So he didn’t know.
He read the note.
Pregnancy-related anxiety.
His expression hardened.
“Mom.”
“I was trying to help.”
“By intercepting notices?”
“I wasn’t intercepting anything. I asked them to send correspondence to the office.”
“So Phoebe wouldn’t see it.”
“She was pregnant.”
“She was also my wife.”
“I knew you’d tell her when
