PART 9

By evening my mother and Chloe had moved into a hotel at my expense for an initial short stay, on the understanding that our lawyers would arrange a documented, lawful process for collecting their belongings and ending their occupancy.

I wasn’t going to create another wrong by pretending I could settle housing rights through a shouted ultimatum.

Evelyn did not thank me.

At six-thirty she called and said, “Warren thinks you’ve overreacted.