You’re making a needless scene over a shadow box.”

“It isn’t a shadow box,” I said, turning the wedding ring on my left hand once.

“It’s an official commendation from defense command.”

“Your sister is trying to build a secure future for all of us,” Martha said.

She picked her cup up from the side table and started stirring her coffee endlessly with a silver spoon.

“You have to stop clinging to little things while bigger decisions are being made.”

Harper picked up Julian’s second plaque and held it directly over David’s nameplate on the wall.