Alvarez said.

“At recess she asked whether parents can sell a house while the children are still inside.”

I parked outside the school and cried where nobody could see me.

Then I wiped my face and walked in.

Brielle sat beside a display of paper planets, her backpack tucked tightly between her shoes.

She looked older than eight in that moment.

“Daddy said you’re taking everything,” she told me when we reached the car.

“Did he say that to you?”