Claire Left Her Diamond Wedding Band in the Master Bathroom Drawer
“I was not sure you had it in you.”
“Thank you, Helga.”
“Mm.” She looked at her nails.
“Eat the rest of that.”
Julian walked me out through the roses with his hand flat on my back, steering me the way he steers a client across a lobby.
“June twenty-second,” he said.
“We’ll have the nursery finished well before June twenty-second.
No trouble at all.”