“If it goes back, I lose the store.”

“I didn’t agree to buy it for you.”

For a long time, we sat with the cooling dinner between us.

Then he said, “What will people say about the family?”

Brenda answered before I could.

“You should have thought about the family before you put a stranger in Mom’s hotel room.”

Greg looked at her as though she had betrayed him.

I knew that expression.