Ethan did ask about the construction timeline the next morning.
He asked before he had fully sat down at the breakfast table, which was a new record even
for him. I told him Reeves was moving the column this week. He nodded with the satisfaction
of someone who has flagged a structural issue and seen it addressed within a reasonable
timeframe. He ate his breakfast. He went to school. The morning resumed its normal shape.
It was the following Thursday, Ethan’s day at the penthouse, when the plant situation
came to a head.
I found out about it the way I found out about most things that happened during the
Tuesday-Thursday arrangement: from Adrian, who called at six with the specific quality
in his voice that means something has happened that he is finding funnier than he expected
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