The cold from the floor plates seemed to be creeping up into my calves.

“Hear who, Haley?”

The typing dots bounced on the screen for a whole minute.

I gripped the edges of the phone case in both hands.

“Different men,” she wrote.

“Mom has different men over to the house late at night.

After she thinks Cody and I are asleep in bed.”

I didn’t answer right away.