Every evening Adam told him the adults were handling a complicated matter.

“Complicated means nobody wants to tell me,” Idan said one night.

Adam looked up from his phone.

“That isn’t fair.”

“Neither is saying Clara took Grandmother’s necklace when nobody saw her.”

Margaret’s fork touched her plate with a sharp sound.

“We will not discuss that woman,” she declared.

Idan pushed back his chair and left.