“Tell me.”

“That I came home three days early to surprise my husband.”

Harrison smiled slightly.

“And instead you found out they were planning to take everything you had.”

Maya watched her son negotiating the sidewalk ahead of them in the last of the light.

“No,” she said.

“That’s what I thought for about a year, and it isn’t right.” She squeezed his arm.

“What I found out is that the life they were trying to take wasn’t a life.