The ones I haven’t filed.” She clicked the screen dark.

“Don’t answer your phone tonight.”

I drove home at ten and parked in the driveway with the engine off.

The kitchen light was on, because Julian always leaves one on when he wants to look like a man who waits up.

The lilies had dropped half their petals across the counter.

I swept them into the trash, rinsed the vase, and set it upside down on the rack.

Then I went upstairs past the bathroom without opening the drawer.