“And if anything feels weird?”

“I call you or Mommy.”

“Even if Grandma says it’s nothing.”

Mia nodded. I looked at him across the roof of the car. “You’re making her nervous.”

“I’m making sure she knows she can call.”

My mother had said almost the same thing to me throughout my childhood. Don’t make everything a problem, Paula. I heard the echo in my own words and instantly regretted it.