“I didn’t realize how much I’d missed.”

“You can decide what you do about that now,” I said.

Then I walked with Grace to the car, her cardboard planets balanced carefully between us.

PART 15

Sienna contacted me just before Thanksgiving.

Her email was brief.

She said she didn’t expect me to forgive her but wanted to clarify that Derek had told her the marriage was ending long before the gala.

She also said the financial review had unsettled her because she had believed RZ was a genuine investment venture.