“Did she ask about Luna?”

He hesitated.

“No.”

The nurse came to check the babies, and I stopped speaking until she finished.

I did not want their care squeezed into the spaces between another family argument.

After she left, I asked Daniel to tell Vivian the visit was not arranged and would not occur on the basis of a promise he had made alone.

He typed slowly.

Twice, he erased a sentence.