I Came Home After Four Years Working Abroad and Found My Wife Starving in Our Backyard—Then My Mother Asked About the Money I Hadn’t Told Her Was Fake

Selina wore Phoebe’s hummingbird necklace again.

That made keeping calm difficult.

I had asked Phoebe:

“Do you want me to take it?”

She said:

“Not if you have to grab it off her.”

Good rule.

So I left it alone.