“We’ll see how long that lasts.”

“You will,” I said.

Selena stood very still beside me.

I wished she were somewhere else, somewhere children did not have to witness adult betrayals.

But she had asked to be present.

In our first conversation with a counselor, she had said that everyone talked about her future while pretending she could not hear them.

She looked up at Gavin.

“The Career Club is not a punishment, Dad.