Before I could answer, Lily’s voice cut in from his end.
Then he said, “What does that mean?”
Before I could answer, Lily’s voice cut in from his end.
“It means Mom kept taking Grandma out of everything.”
A rustle. Then Michael again.
“Lily, let me talk to Grandma.”
“No,” she said. “You saw it at the beach.”
That evening, he came to my room alone.
Michael didn’t deny what he had seen.
He said he thought Ashley was being rude, not deliberate. He said he had not known about the slideshow. He said he should have stepped in anyway.
That evening, he came to my room alone.
He looked tired.
“I’m sorry,” he said.