“I’ve been working three years toward the office manager job,” I said.

“The promotion pays fifty-two thousand dollars.”

Heather reached into her pocket and pulled out a small folded piece of lined notebook paper.

“He gave me this budget on Friday,” Heather said, setting the paper on the table.

“He figured my child support from Colin as half the monthly rent.

Then he wrote down forty-five dollars an hour for his overtime to cover his truck payment.”

I looked at the lines of blue ink in Seth’s handwriting.