My Daughter Begged Me Not to Get Off the Bus—Minutes Later, My Boyfriend Sent a Photo of My Deed Beside a Contract I Had Never Signed
Lily took my hand and Ethan’s and pressed them together on the table.
“Then we’re Team Lily.”
Neither of us corrected her.
Mom looked away for a moment, pretending to attend to the kettle.
After Lily went to sit with her grandmother, Ethan and I remained at the table.
“I should have called you earlier,” I said.
He rubbed a hand over his face.
“I should have kept asking without turning every conversation into an argument.”