“I have been thinking since two in the morning.”

Margaret said she would see us later and ended the call.

Ethan was waiting by the garage door with a carton against his chest.

We needed to move stored decorations out of my SUV and make room for the ice and juice still to be collected.

Neither of us mentioned the call.

I opened the rear hatch and moved aside the old blanket covering the cargo floor.

“The grocery store flowers are staying on the table,” I said.