We almost smiled.

The grocery receipt was $31.84, for the dinner Evan had bought two nights before the argument.

“He knows how to buy groceries,” Mara said.

“He got Noah three kinds of cereal.”

“Then he has approval from a five-year-old.”

That small joke helped until I picked up an envelope with an account reference unlike the one I normally used.

“I don’t recognize this.”

Mara took out her notebook.