I think you should be there, Helena.

Because Justin is at the house right now, and he is preparing it for a private auction — he intends to begin selling your home out from under you within the week.

It is time someone informed him that it was never his to sell.”

I slept, that night, for the first time in longer than I could remember, without doing arithmetic in the dark.

And in the morning, before Samuel came for me, I sat on the edge of the fold-out couch and watched my grandson eat his breakfast, and I did a different kind of thinking than I had done in years.

For his whole life, I had planned in weeks.