He set the card down.

“I thought you’d be over the trip by now.”

“Selena was saving for twelve years,” I replied.

“Two weeks in Italy don’t stop mattering just because the luggage is unpacked.”

I tucked the last marker into a box and carried it to the car.

PART 13

The next month brought a letter I had not expected.

It came from the bank’s review department, responding to the complaint I had filed shortly after Gavin left.